'#' as comment character vs. '#' as erase character
Henry Spencer
henry at utzoo.UUCP
Wed Jul 3 02:53:19 AEST 1985
> 2) Why were the '#' and '@' characters used as editing characters,
> other than nostalgia for Multics (which used lots of weird IBM
> 2741 printing terminals over half-duplex lines, and couldn't
> do much better)...
Remember what system KLT and DMR had been working on immediately before
the development of Unix. Their fingers were very definitely trained for
Multics typing conventions.
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Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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