an odd question

From: Derek Peschel <dpeschel_at_eskimo.com>
Date: Thu Aug 9 19:45:57 2001

On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 12:44:48AM +0100, Iggy Drougge wrote:
> Bill Pechter skrev:

> >> The unix shell has used the ^C nomenclature since I can remember, which
> >> goes back to version 6 on PDP 11s.
>
> >DEC docs older than that used the Ascii Arrow which was replaced on
> >keyboards at a later date by the carrot.
>
> Arrow? Carrot?

Bill (who should have written "caret") means that in the version of ASCII
used before the current version, the ^ was an arrow pointing upward.
Also the _ was an arrow pointing leftward.

There are still older versions of ASCII, but that's another story.
Received on Thu Aug 09 2001 - 19:45:57 BST