9 Aug
2001
9 Aug
'01
7:45 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.
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?