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  1. Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!cubtosys!hees
  3. From: hees@cubic.com (Phil Hees)
  4. Subject: Re: command abbreviation
  5. Organization: Cubic Tomato Corp.
  6. Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 19:08:45 GMT
  7. Message-ID: <1992Nov13.190845.18036@cubic.com>
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  9.  
  10. alderson@elaine46.Stanford.EDU (Rich Alderson) writes:
  11. >wingo@apple (Tony Wingo) writes:
  12. >>Yeah, back when I was programming on a PDP-10 in the early 70's, about two
  13. >>thirds of our teletypes (ASR33's mostly) had the back-arrow as the shift-O
  14. >>character. PIP was not the only thing that used it: I saw at least one
  15. >>ALGOL variant that used it for assignment.
  16. >
  17. >Would that have been SAIL, perhaps?
  18.  
  19. If I recall correctly, BLISS-10 used the back arrow for assignment.
  20. SAIL is of approximately the same vintage.
  21.  
  22. --
  23. Phil Hees
  24. hees@cubic.com
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