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> When you see something weird in the space, assume it is because someone in the 1960s thought using more than two characters world be a profligate waste of space.
And with 1960s technology, this might just have been a very reasonable decision.
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Totally. Just some of those decisions put awkward constraints when the hardware is now a million times more capable.
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