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Subject: Re: PATCH, RFC: 2.6 Documentation/Codingstyle
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On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 01:10:12AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
 
> Yes, 80 cols sucks and the world would be a better place had CodingStyle
> mandated 96 columns five years ago.  But it didn't happen.

Well, IBM had tried that once (System/3), but it didn't stick ;-)