ASR33 Teletype interfacing

From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
Date: Mon Oct 20 01:39:59 2003

Tony wrote:
> The caret and up-arrow characters look sufficiently similar that this
> change makes little difference for the sort of applications where you'd
> use an ASR33 these days (e.g. for the raise-to-power function in BASIC).

The caret and uparrow, maybe. But trying to read Smalltalk code or
the HP-41C ROM source code on a system that uses modern ASCII with
the underscore instead of the backarrow really sucks. The Unicode
mapping I suggested is *much* better for that, IMNSHO.

Eric
Received on Mon Oct 20 2003 - 01:39:59 BST