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From: dave at horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 05:47:33 +1100 (EST)
Subject: [COFF] [TUHS] UNIX Backslash History
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On Mon, 28 Oct 2019, Steve Nickolas wrote:

> 86-DOS actually did use ":" as a prompt character.  This was changed for 
> IBM's release, for some clone releases, and for MS-DOS 2.0.

The best I've ever seen was RT-11's "." - talk about minimalist...

Actually this thread probably belongs on COFF by now.

-- Dave