[Info-vax] Ctrl-Ecf

[Bob Koehler]

In article <6c8qm.11402$U5.152280 at newsb.telia.net>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan-Erik_S=F6derholm?= writes:
> Bob Koehler wrote:
>> In article <DeXpm.11384$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.
>> 
> 
> Ah, OK. Maybe I thought of DEC-MCS that later was made into
> some ISO standard (more or less)...

   Hm, yeah, I think that started around VT300 time.  At least, I don't
   recall the compose key on VT200 series, and I know there wasn't one
   on the VT100 series.