In article <1a1726cf-70a0-019d-1138-c5e22f258d4d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> you write: >I thought the format was a compromise between US Letter format, A4 >format, and printers. I thought it was 72 characters because that's how many you got on a punch card, leaving 8 for the sequence number. >What would be parochial would be to assume that nobody in the world >needs to print RFCs using mechanical printers any more - that everyone >in the world should have laser printers, ample power for their fusers, >and a generous supply of suitable paper and toner - I think that if you price all the printers made in the past decade or two, you'll find that there are a lot of laser and inkjet printers and close to nothing else, certainly nothing restricted to fixed pitch text. The only mechanical printers I recall seeing in recent years are antique Okidata dot matrix units printing whatever it is they print at airport gates. R's, John
