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On Fri, 1 Jul 2022, Lars Brinkhoff wrote:

> Steve Nickolas wrote:
>> Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:
>>> Some other O/Ses have used Ctrl-Z for that purpose, presumably
>>> because Z is the final letter of numerous alphabets.
>>
>> I thought only CP/M and its descendants did that.
>
> Also TOPS-10.  And proably other DEC operating systems, but I don't know
> much about those.  I believe CP/M was inspired by many of the DEC
> traditions,

Yeah.  As, independent of its position as a knockoff CP/M, was the 
original MS-DOS (2.0 brought in a few things from Xenix).

-uso.