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Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 15:15:54 +0000
From: "Brian L. Stuart" <blstuart@bellsouth.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 C compiler for RISC-V by Richard Miller
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On Tue, 10/30/18, Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com> wrote:
> > Is there a technical reason (beside fonts that do not cover them) not
> > to use a Unicode values for the first letter?
>
> They're a bit harder to produce on the keyboard.

Especially if you're at a VT-220 on the console and can't
run rio.

Don't laugh.  I actually have a VT-220 on my file server.

BLS