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From: krewat at kilonet.net (Arthur Krewat)
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 19:17:52 -0400
Subject: [COFF] [TUHS] UNIX Backslash History
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On 10/28/2019 4:43 PM, Paul Winalski wrote:
> RT-11 was following standard DEC practice by using "." as its command
> prompt.  The "monitor dot" was the command prompt in both TOPS-10 and
> TOPS-20.

In my many accesses of TOPS-20 systems back in the day, thanks to the 
ARPANET, I am reasonably certain I never EVER once saw a TOPS-20 system 
with a "." prompt.

art k.