31 Dec
1998
31 Dec
'98
2:01 p.m.
On Thu, 31 Dec 1998, Ward Donald Griffiths III wrote:
Well, "PRINT @" was standard in all of the
TRS-80 BASIC interpreters,
and in most other Microsoft BASICs I've used (never done VB -- is it
still there?). And the tilde in net use is a carryover from Unix as
an abbreviation for a home directory, used it myself that way since
early Tandy Xenix days (call it 1983). The tilde didn't exist on the
Mod 1/3 or CoCo (stock) keyboards.
AppleSoft didn't have a PRINT @ statement so chalk that one up to my
arrogant ignorance. Interestingly though, Woz squeezed the '@' symbol
on to the original Apple ][ keyboard above the P key (shift-P = @). Who
knows why. The @ wasn't used for anything inherent in the Apple.
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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