if you have code -was- Re:Why wrap @ 80?

[James Knott]

Lloyd Budd wrote:
> 
> On 23-Apr-04, at 18:45, John Macdonald wrote:
> 
>> Well, wrapping text is sometimes wrong.
>>
>> For example, if you include code that happens to
>> go beyond 80 char lines,
> 
> If someone has code that goes beyond 80 chars *they* have done something
> wrong ;-)

Have you ever seen "micro code"?  Years ago, many computers used 
microcode to run the CPU.  The listings often ran well over 100 
characters wide, just for the instructions!  In some computers, such as 
the Data General Eclipse and DEC VAX 11/780, it was possible to write 
extenstions to the instruction set, using micro code.
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