9 Aug
2001
9 Aug
'01
8:02 p.m.
On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 12:44:48AM +0100, Iggy Drougge
wrote:
Bill (who should have written "caret") means that in the version of ASCII
used before the current version, the ^ was an arrow pointing upward.
Also the _ was an arrow pointing leftward.
There are still older versions of ASCII, but that's another story.
That's what I get for posting before coffee...
Caret... yeah... that's the word.
Been a long time since teletypes with the arrow... saw my last one about
15 years ago... loading a PDP8E from paper tape.
Bill
--
Bill Gates is a Persian cat and a monocle away from being a
villain in a James Bond movie -- Dennis Miller
bpechter@shell.monmouth.com|pechter@pechter.dyndns.org
Bill Pechter skrev:
> The
unix shell has used the ^C nomenclature since I can remember, which
> goes back to version 6 on PDP 11s.
DEC docs older than that used the Ascii Arrow
which was replaced on
keyboards at a later date by the carrot.
Arrow? Carrot?