9 Aug
2001
9 Aug
'01
6:23 p.m.
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?
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com