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Ah, early 486 chip then?

No a long way before that. I am not sure if the 286 had been invented
back then. I heard about it first hand in 1984. ISTR it had something to
do with continuation cards in the FORTRAN conversion output of a
symbolic algebra system. It was big iron mainframe stuff.

(I don't do smileys...)

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Rusty
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