Separate Verbatim into two columns

Question

Is it possible to split a long verbatim simply into 2 columns? For example:

 \begin{verbatim}
 a
 a
 a
 b
 b
 \end{verbatim}

result displayed (b starting at the middle of the page):

a       b
a       b
a       

Answer 1

Use the package multicol that allows doing two columns text:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{multicol}
\begin{document}
\begin{multicols}{2}
\begin{verbatim}
a
a
a
a
b
b
b
\end{verbatim}
\end{multicols}
\end{document}