^X (was: an odd question

From: ajp166 <ajp166_at_bellatlantic.net>
Date: Thu Aug 9 18:23:12 2001

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_at_xenosoft.com>
To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org <classiccmp_at_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:
>> 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
before"
>Wordstar, which was running under CP/M for many years before the
existence
>of MS-DOS?
>
>--
>Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin_at_xenosoft.com
>
>
>
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