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From: Gerhard Postpischil
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 13:13

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McKown, John wrote:
> To me, the next step in HLASM intelligent design would be to abandon the
> archaic 80 column card format entirely. Why is it there any more? Or
> course, a 200 character line would likely be enough to infuriate any
> good HLASM programmer. But a nice 100 character line could be useful.

Be careful what you wish for, because you might get it!
A wider line might be nice, but it would require increased width of your
display, and still greater width on your printer. While those are
feasible, as you age your eyesight will deteriorate until you can't read
the small stuff anymore <G>.

One of the attractive features of the assembler is the tabular
appearance, with occasional indentation, that makes it easy to read and
search. That might be lost with wider lines, and would waste time?

Gerhard Postpischil
Bradford, VT

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