[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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