Why wrap @ 80?

[Peter L. Peres]

On Sat, 24 Apr 2004, cbbrowne-HInyCGIudOg at public.gmane.org wrote:

> To be sure, 72 and 80 character limits were long the result of common
> punched cards being of those sizes, but an 80 character limit is no
> random coincidence.  And yes, it has to do with our eyes.

And surely the width of punched cards was not chosen by throwing dice.

Peter
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