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- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!cubtosys!hees
- From: hees@cubic.com (Phil Hees)
- Subject: Re: command abbreviation
- Organization: Cubic Tomato Corp.
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 19:28:11 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.192811.18342@cubic.com>
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- wingo@apple.com (Tony Wingo) writes:
- >
- >(actually, prior to 1970 or so, I think that _ was the mutant shift O
- >character and <- was standard, though I'm not absolutely sure since before
- >working on the PDP-10 I did my typing on an 029 keypunch. Maybe someone
- >older than me can clarify this point :-) ).
-
- The original ASCII standard assigned the up-arrow to (octal) 136 and
- the backarrow to (octal) 137. A revision to the ASCII standard sometime
- in the late 1960s changed these to the caret and underscore, respectively.
- Naturally, not everyone changed over immediately.
-
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- Phil Hees
- hees@cubic.com
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