From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2018 07:10:16 +1000 (EST)
Subject: [TUHS] The dollar symbol
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1804010702020.27730@aneurin.horsfall.org>

On this day in 1778 businessman Oliver Pollock created the "$" sign, and 
now we see it everywhere: shell prompts and variables, macro strings, Perl 
variables, system references (SYS$BLAH, SWAP$SYS, etc), etc; where would 
we be without it?

-- 
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Those who don't understand security will suffer."