[Info-vax] Ctrl-Ecf
Richard B. Gilbert
rgilbert88 at comcast.net
Thu Sep 10 11:15:11 EDT 2009
Bob Koehler wrote:
> In article <DeXpm.11384$U5.152000 at newsb.telia.net>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan-Erik_S=F6derholm?= writes:
>> Of course. Windows (note the spelling) has nothing to do with this.
>> ASCII comes from the first VT terminals (which I would have guessed
>> that you knew).
>
> Which VT would that be? AFAIK ASCII has been around longer than VTs.
> Our PDP-10 used ASCII with narry a VT in sight, and I don't think
> ASCII was exactly new then.
>
ASCII dates from ca. 1968.
The VT-100 arrived ca. 1978.
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