16 Aug
2005
16 Aug
'05
7:53 a.m.
On 16/08/2005, at 10:52 AM, Tim Shoppa wrote:
It's the other way around, but in early ASCII
standards where we now
have underbar was instead back-arrow. (And instead of caret there was
up-arrow). I think the intention was to use it as an assignment
operator.
Indeed this was the case. The DECsystem-10 I used to work on had two
line printers, one had underscore, the other had back-arrow. It was
really important to print BLISS-10 code on the right one (and RUNOFF
output on the other - underlining with backarrows was sad :-)
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