From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: wes.parish@paradise.net.nz (Wesley Parish) Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 21:24:54 +1200 (NZST) Subject: [TUHS] Slashes (was: MS-DOS) In-Reply-To: <3A3AEFA5-8B6B-472D-85F1-1636646418D9@ronnatalie.com> References: <20160710014108.926234422B@lignose.oclsc.org> <5E25E523-D712-4C31-884C-6CCE3CC9EE9C@tfeb.org> <3A3AEFA5-8B6B-472D-85F1-1636646418D9@ronnatalie.com> Message-ID: <1468401894.578608e6809bb@www.paradise.net.nz> IIRC, Steven Kaisler's book "The Design of Operating Systems for Small Computer Systems" used the up-arrow as the pseudocode's pointer symbol. Did Pascal do that as well, or was that only on some of the Pascal dialects? Wesley Parish Quoting Ronald Natalie : > We had teletypes that went both ways. Some had the arrows and some had > the caret/underscore. > > > On Jul 12, 2016, at 1:53 PM, Tim Bradshaw wrote: > > > > On 10 Jul 2016, at 02:46, Steve Nickolas wrote: > > > >> Some 8-bit computers used up arrow for ^ even into the 80s, I think > Radio Shack's did at least. > > > > I'm fairly (but not completely) sure that the Xerox Lisp machines had > caret as up arrow, and they certainly had left arrow for underscore. > They persisted into the late 80s when I used them. I'm not sure what > appeared on the keyboards, which may have been more modern than the > character set used by the system, since the same hardware was sold with > different software on it. > > "I have supposed that he who buys a Method means to learn it." - Ferdinand Sor, Method for Guitar "A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on." -- Samuel Goldwyn