[Info-vax] Ctrl-Ecf

[Arne Vajhøj]

Bob Koehler wrote:
> 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.

DECMCS came with VT200.

Non-US keyboards had keys for characters >127.

Arne