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It’s an interesting question! Might be a bit too specific for the book, but I wonder if @enf has some ideas – he might have studied this at some point.
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The part of the history that I know is that Multics had 10-character tabs. I'm guessing that Unix went with 8-character because it was close to that but could be done with bit-shifting instead of requiring multiplication or division
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My own first experience with tabs was 5-character tabs in AppleWorks in 1985
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