From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: lars at nocrew.org (Lars Brinkhoff)
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:01:52 +0000
Subject: [COFF] Comparative promptology
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 (Warner Losh's message of "Mon, 28 Oct 2019 13:57:01 -0600")
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Warner Losh wrote:
> But none of these get us closer to CP/M's > prompt.

To me > suggests an arrow indicating "enter your input here".  Pure
speculation of course.

Interestingly, some ITS programs does the exact opposite.  They use the
1963 ASCII character "left arrow" as a prompt.  (Today it just outputs
as an underscore but printed texts and screenshots show that the 1963
character set was in use.)