Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: '#' as comment character vs. '#' as erase character Message-ID: <5750@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Tue, 2-Jul-85 12:53:19 EDT Article-I.D.: utzoo.5750 Posted: Tue Jul 2 12:53:19 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 2-Jul-85 12:53:19 EDT References: <291@ucdavis.UUCP> <2401@pegasus.UUCP>, <2360@sun.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 11 > 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. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry