1 May
2018
1 May
'18
11:08 a.m.
On Tue, 1 May 2018, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote:
I'd previously noticed that searches for
'pdp-11' turned up things with
'pdp11' in the title, so they apparently internally drop the '-'.
(Google
does a similar thing.) I just tried, and searching for '"pdp-11"' (i.e.
exact
multi-word match, which I use for '"Digital Equipment"') still turns
up
'pdp11' items. Case ('PDP-11' versus 'pdp-11') doesn't seem
to matter
either.
hyphen "-" seems to do three different things in eBay search system:
1) as a literal character, where there IS a hyphen in the term
(which might simply always be ignored)
2) as a negation ("minus sign" V "hyphen"), to mean exclude, but only
when
delimited (following a space)
Do some current computer character sets have discrete hyphen and
minus-sign?
2) as a marker for consecutive terms, ignoring intervening space
DEC-RAINBOW
is the same to eBay as:
"DEC RAINBOW" /* quotation marks actually in search term */
DEC RAINBOW
DECRAINBOW
but NOT the same as:
RAINBOW DEC
DEC COMPUTER RAINBOW
So,
PDP-11
"should" match:
PDP11
PDP 11
PDP-11