From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on archive.lwn.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.0 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by archive.lwn.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39EEB7D2F0 for ; Wed, 15 May 2019 16:56:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726755AbfEOQ4u (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 May 2019 12:56:50 -0400 Received: from ms.lwn.net ([45.79.88.28]:51964 "EHLO ms.lwn.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726690AbfEOQ4u (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 May 2019 12:56:50 -0400 Received: from lwn.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ms.lwn.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 971E6316; Wed, 15 May 2019 16:56:49 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 15 May 2019 10:56:48 -0600 From: Jonathan Corbet To: "Tobin C. Harding" Cc: "Thomas Hellstrom" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "minyard@acm.org" , "linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" , "Tobin C. Harding" Subject: [TRIVIA] Re: [PATCH] docs: Move kref.txt to core-api/kref.rst Message-ID: <20190515105648.61164eab@lwn.net> In-Reply-To: References: <20190510001747.8767-1-tobin@kernel.org> Organization: LWN.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-doc-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 10 May 2019 16:45:45 -0400 "Tobin C. Harding" wrote: > I read once that they used 72 characters on punch cards at times because > the other 8 characters got mangled for some reason. Those of use who worked in Fortran understand these things... columns 73-80 were ignored by the compiler. The normal use was to put line numbers in there to help recovery when you dropped your card deck on the floor and had to unshuffle things. A diagonal line drawn across the top of deck helped a lot, but it was good to have verification for the marginal cases. Kids today just don't have any culture at all...:) jon