^X (was: an odd question

From: joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Thu Aug 9 19:07:18 2001

I may be wrong but didn't the use of Control and a key begin with teletypes
and long before the arrival of computers? I know the control something was
used to ring the bell on the recieving system. Control something else
generated the DC 1 and DC 2 codes that could be used to switch off and on
special devices on the recieving system.

    Joe

At 07:23 PM 8/9/01 -0400, you wrote:
>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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