> 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.
That's what I get for posting before coffee...
Caret... yeah... that's the word.
Been a long time since teletypes with the arrow... saw my last one about
15 years ago... loading a PDP8E from paper tape.
Bill
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