From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: "Tobin C. Harding" <me@tobin.cc>
Cc: "Thomas Hellstrom" <thellstrom@vmware.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"minyard@acm.org" <minyard@acm.org>,
"linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>,
"Tobin C. Harding" <tobin@kernel.org>
Subject: [TRIVIA] Re: [PATCH] docs: Move kref.txt to core-api/kref.rst
Date: Wed, 15 May 2019 10:56:48 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190515105648.61164eab@lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f48e76f7-6b95-4cf0-82af-424119bb2eb4@www.fastmail.com>
On Fri, 10 May 2019 16:45:45 -0400
"Tobin C. Harding" <me@tobin.cc> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-15 16:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-10 0:17 [PATCH] docs: Move kref.txt to core-api/kref.rst Tobin C. Harding
2019-05-10 0:41 ` Tobin C. Harding
2019-05-10 14:17 ` Jonathan Corbet
2019-05-10 10:50 ` Thomas Hellstrom
2019-05-10 20:45 ` Tobin C. Harding
2019-05-15 16:56 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
2019-05-16 23:19 ` [TRIVIA] " Tobin C. Harding
2019-05-20 18:23 ` Jonathan Corbet
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