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From: imp at bsdimp.com (Warner Losh)
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 13:57:01 -0600
Subject: [COFF] Comparative promptology
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On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 1:51 PM Lars Brinkhoff <lars at nocrew.org> wrote:

> Dave Horsfall wrote:
> > Steve Nickolas wrote:
> >> 86-DOS actually did use ":" as a prompt character.
> > The best I've ever seen was RT-11's "." - talk about minimalist...
> >
> > Actually this thread probably belongs on COFF by now.
>
> I was bound to happen.  List all the prompts!
>
> "*" seems popular on PDP-10s.
>

"@  " was the TOPS-20 prompt.
"$ " was the VMS prompt
RSTS/E was just "Ready\n"

But none of these get us closer to CP/M's > prompt.

Warner
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