9 Aug
2001
9 Aug
'01
7:07 p.m.
I may be wrong but didn't the use of Control and a key begin with teletypes
and long before the arrival of computers? I know the control something was
used to ring the bell on the recieving system. Control something else
generated the DC 1 and DC 2 codes that could be used to switch off and on
special devices on the recieving system.
Joe
At 07:23 PM 8/9/01 -0400, you wrote:
The ^mumble predates micros. I remember using ^O, ^S
and ^X for
PDP-8 in '69 and the notation was existant then.
Allison
-----Original Message-----
From: Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) <cisin(a)xenosoft.com>
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Date: Thursday, August 09, 2001 12:52 PM
Subject: ^X (was: an odd question
On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Master of all that Sucks
wrote:
before"
Well, MS-DOS 1.0 was doing it long before
WordStar.
"Everybody" was doing it long before EITHER.
But, ... how could MS-DOS 1.00 (August 4 or 11, 1981) do it "long Wordstar, which was running under CP/M for many
years before the
existence
>of MS-DOS?
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>Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com
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