[Info-vax] Ctrl-Ecf

[Arne Vajhøj]

Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> 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)...

DECMCS is for practical purposes identical with ISO-8859-1.
But I think there are a couple of less used characters that
are different. The committee had to changed something !  :-)

Arne