From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ron@ronnatalie.com (Ron Natalie) Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2016 17:45:21 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] Slashes (was: MS-DOS) In-Reply-To: <20160708211637.GB32610@mercury.ccil.org> References: <1468002191.3664013.660840929.6B8BA92D@webmail.messagingengine.com> <008c01d1d95c$f3f9ad60$dbed0820$@ronnatalie.com> <20160708211637.GB32610@mercury.ccil.org> Message-ID: <00a801d1d962$07465fd0$15d31f70$@ronnatalie.com> That may have been the origin, but Hazeltine persisted even in later versions of the terminal which implemented later ASCII and had a printing ~ at 126. That's why the comment and associated code is in the terminal driver. In order to print a ~ you had to send it twice. -----Original Message----- From: John Cowan [mailto:cowan@ccil.org] On Behalf Of John Cowan Sent: Friday, July 8, 2016 5:17 PM To: Ron Natalie Cc: 'Clem Cole'; 'Random832'; 'TUHS main list' Subject: Re: [TUHS] Slashes (was: MS-DOS) Ron Natalie scripsit: > Hopkins actually had one of the “braindamaged Hazeltines” (leave poor > tilde alone) Not the terminal's fault. It was just implementing ASCII-63, in which ESC was up by DEL, in the current position of ~. Other terminals did ASCII-67, the current standard. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan at ccil.org A poetical purist named Cowan [that's me] Once put the rest of us dowan. [on xml-dev] "Your verse would be sweeter / If it only had metre And rhymes that didn't force me to frowan." [overpacked line!] --Michael Kay