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EricG · 12 Feb 2022, 03:10 PM

Email dates to the TTY era, either teletype or CRTs usually with 80 columns. They didn't necessarily wrap after 80 characters, some just overwrote column 80. That's why the RFC says 78. Few text editors had notepad's notion of word wrap either.

12 Feb 2022, 03:10 PM	#8
EricG Essential Contributor Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Canada Posts: 296	Email dates to the TTY era, either teletype or CRTs usually with 80 columns. They didn't necessarily wrap after 80 characters, some just overwrote column 80. That's why the RFC says 78. Few text editors had notepad's notion of word wrap either.