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From: Brian Walden <tuhs@cuzuco.com>
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Subject: Re: [TUHS] sh: cmd | >file
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Doug McIlroy wrote:
>Brian Walden's discussion of sh #, etc, is right on.
>However, his etymology for unary * in C can be
>pushed back at least to 1959. * was used for
>indirect addressing in SAP, the assembler for
>the IBM 7090.

Thank you for both the confirmation and also that history update.
-Brian