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| | | Author: | pjlacy  | | Posted: | Feb 13, 2022 23:41 | | Subject: | Why is the limit on feedback 80 characters? | | Viewed: | 164 times | | Topic: | Feedback | |
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| | Surely it can be made bigger, 80 characters is smaller than an SMS. |
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| | | | | Author: | wildchicken13 | | Posted: | Feb 14, 2022 00:03 | | Subject: | Re: Why is the limit on feedback 80 characters? | | Viewed: | 70 times | | Topic: | Feedback | |
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| In Feedback, pjlacy writes:
| | Surely it can be made bigger, 80 characters is smaller than an SMS.
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What would you make it? 160?
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| | | | | | | Author: | pjlacy | | Posted: | Feb 14, 2022 18:45 | | Subject: | Re: Why is the limit on feedback 80 characters? | | Viewed: | 25 times | | Topic: | Feedback | |
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| In Feedback, wildchicken13 writes:
| | In Feedback, pjlacy writes:
| | Surely it can be made bigger, 80 characters is smaller than an SMS.
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What would you make it? 160?
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That would be better. I understand why there is a need for some sort of limit,
but surely we can be a little more generous.
I saw in some of the other reviews people wondering why, this came up because
I was filling out my first feedback and it was very limiting, couldn't say
everything i would have liked to.
Don't expect it to allow novels of feedback, but a little bigger surely can
be supported. Storage is a lot cheaper these days.
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| | | | | Author: | jennnifer | | Posted: | Feb 14, 2022 09:30 | | Subject: | Re: Why is the limit on feedback 80 characters? | | Viewed: | 61 times | | Topic: | Feedback | |
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| In Feedback, pjlacy writes:
| | Surely it can be made bigger, 80 characters is smaller than an SMS.
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80 is plenty. What more do you need to say? People mostly only use the full 80
if they are complaining about something bad that happened or filling the space
with emoji. 
The limit keeps the format on the page concise as well.
Jen
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| | | | | Author: | cosmicray | | Posted: | Feb 14, 2022 11:15 | | Subject: | Re: Why is the limit on feedback 80 characters? | | Viewed: | 70 times | | Topic: | Feedback | |
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| In Feedback, pjlacy writes:
| | Surely it can be made bigger, 80 characters is smaller than an SMS.
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Why ask why? This is (almost certainly) a legacy constraint, from the beginnings
of BL, over 20 years back.
For those who might wonder how 80 was chosen, I will note that 80 characters
was the capacity of an IBM card (not that BL ever ran on punched cards). it was
also the size of some fixed width displays.
Nita Rae
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| | | | | | | Author: | Leftoverbricks | | Posted: | Feb 14, 2022 11:45 | | Subject: | Re: Why is the limit on feedback 80 characters? | | Viewed: | 52 times | | Topic: | Feedback | |
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| In Feedback, cosmicray writes:
| | In Feedback, pjlacy writes:
| | Surely it can be made bigger, 80 characters is smaller than an SMS.
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Why ask why? This is (almost certainly) a legacy constraint, from the beginnings
of BL, over 20 years back.
For those who might wonder how 80 was chosen, I will note that 80 characters
was the capacity of an IBM card (not that BL ever ran on punched cards). it was
also the size of some fixed width displays.
Nita Rae
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This brings back old memories
I wrote my first computer program in Fortran IV and had it punched on IBM punch
cards. The staple of cards was fed into a card reader on a mega computer at Utrecht
University.
After hitting the "Go" button (or it's equivalent back then) I got a half
inch thick pile of continuous paper with the results.
Now that was programming!
We're talking 1978 and at that time I was a rather handsome boy aged 17 
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | calebfishn | | Posted: | Feb 14, 2022 12:09 | | Subject: | Re: Why is the limit on feedback 80 characters? | | Viewed: | 42 times | | Topic: | Feedback | |
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| This brings back memories of playing my first computer game back in 1975. The
computer did not have a screen display. Everything was printed out on large rolls
of yellow computer paper.
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | Leftoverbricks | | Posted: | Feb 14, 2022 12:18 | | Subject: | Re: Why is the limit on feedback 80 characters? | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | Feedback | |
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| In Feedback, calebfishn writes:
| | This brings back memories of playing my first computer game back in 1975. The
computer did not have a screen display. Everything was printed out on large rolls
of yellow computer paper.
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This era was represented by LEGO with this set.
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | legoman77 | | Posted: | Feb 14, 2022 13:03 | | Subject: | Re: Why is the limit on feedback 80 characters? | | Viewed: | 60 times | | Topic: | Feedback | |
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| In Feedback, Leftoverbricks writes:
| | In Feedback, cosmicray writes:
| | In Feedback, pjlacy writes:
| | Surely it can be made bigger, 80 characters is smaller than an SMS.
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Why ask why? This is (almost certainly) a legacy constraint, from the beginnings
of BL, over 20 years back.
For those who might wonder how 80 was chosen, I will note that 80 characters
was the capacity of an IBM card (not that BL ever ran on punched cards). it was
also the size of some fixed width displays.
Nita Rae
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This brings back old memories
I wrote my first computer program in Fortran IV and had it punched on IBM punch
cards. The staple of cards was fed into a card reader on a mega computer at Utrecht
University.
After hitting the "Go" button (or it's equivalent back then) I got a half
inch thick pile of continuous paper with the results.
Now that was programming!
We're talking 1978 and at that time I was a rather handsome boy aged 17
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I was at UTEP then taking a graduate course in statistics. We would have to
fill out dozens of cards and take them to the "computer building." They would
tell me come back in 3 hours and I would get the news that the program would
not run. I think that we had to fill in a document of some sort and it punched
the cards. Not sure. I might have had to do that. I do remember we went and
got a garbage bag of punched out pieces and emptied them in someone's care
we did not like.
john P
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | Legolibrarian2 | | Posted: | Feb 14, 2022 19:25 | | Subject: | Re: Why is the limit on feedback 80 characters? | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | Feedback | |
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| In Feedback, legoman77 writes:
| | In Feedback, Leftoverbricks writes:
| | In Feedback, cosmicray writes:
| | In Feedback, pjlacy writes:
| | Surely it can be made bigger, 80 characters is smaller than an SMS.
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Why ask why? This is (almost certainly) a legacy constraint, from the beginnings
of BL, over 20 years back.
For those who might wonder how 80 was chosen, I will note that 80 characters
was the capacity of an IBM card (not that BL ever ran on punched cards). it was
also the size of some fixed width displays.
Nita Rae
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This brings back old memories
I wrote my first computer program in Fortran IV and had it punched on IBM punch
cards. The staple of cards was fed into a card reader on a mega computer at Utrecht
University.
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I was at McGill Universsity. To get my punched cards to the computer center,
I had to walk on a snowy/icy path down a steepish hill with no handrails. I
lived in terror that I would slip and my beautiful card deck would be scattered
to the winds.
| | | | After hitting the "Go" button (or it's equivalent back then) I got a half
inch thick pile of continuous paper with the results.
Now that was programming!
We're talking 1978 and at that time I was a rather handsome boy aged 17
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I was at UTEP then taking a graduate course in statistics. We would have to
fill out dozens of cards and take them to the "computer building." They would
tell me come back in 3 hours and I would get the news that the program would
not run. I think that we had to fill in a document of some sort and it punched
the cards. Not sure. I might have had to do that. I do remember we went and
got a garbage bag of punched out pieces and emptied them in someone's care
we did not like.
john P
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | cosmicray | | Posted: | Feb 15, 2022 06:32 | | Subject: | Re: Why is the limit on feedback 80 characters? | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | Feedback | |
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| In Feedback, legoman77 writes:
| | In Feedback, Leftoverbricks writes:
| | In Feedback, cosmicray writes:
| | In Feedback, pjlacy writes:
| | Surely it can be made bigger, 80 characters is smaller than an SMS.
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Why ask why? This is (almost certainly) a legacy constraint, from the beginnings
of BL, over 20 years back.
For those who might wonder how 80 was chosen, I will note that 80 characters
was the capacity of an IBM card (not that BL ever ran on punched cards). it was
also the size of some fixed width displays.
Nita Rae
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This brings back old memories
I wrote my first computer program in Fortran IV and had it punched on IBM punch
cards. The staple of cards was fed into a card reader on a mega computer at Utrecht
University.
After hitting the "Go" button (or it's equivalent back then) I got a half
inch thick pile of continuous paper with the results.
Now that was programming!
We're talking 1978 and at that time I was a rather handsome boy aged 17
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I was at UTEP then taking a graduate course in statistics. We would have to
fill out dozens of cards and take them to the "computer building." They would
tell me come back in 3 hours and I would get the news that the program would
not run. I think that we had to fill in a document of some sort and it punched
the cards. Not sure. I might have had to do that. I do remember we went and
got a garbage bag of punched out pieces and emptied them in someone's care
we did not like.
john P
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When I first took Fortran IV, at HCC in Tampa, one of my first programs chewed
thru half a box of paper, before they canceled it. The evening shift operator
handed it to me and said "Don't ever do that again !"
Nita Rae
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