[Info-vax] Emacs and Meta Key on a VT-520 (LK411-AA Keyboard) Terminal?

[Rich Alderson]

Rich Alderson <news at alderson.users.panix.com> writes:

> In the *REALLY* *OLD* days, the META bit was the 400 bit, and CONTROL
> was the 200 bit.  The TOP bit was the 4000 bit; on the system which
> defined these, SAIL, the 2000 and 1000 bits were not (AFAIK, I'm
> willing to be corrected) given names.

Oh, forgot to note that the idea of "bucky bits" was first implemented
on the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory's PDP-1, at the
suggestion of Herr Doktor Professor Niklaus Wirth.[3] I don't believe
that they were named "CONTROL" and "META" on the PDP-1, but we'd have to
ask someone who was there to be sure.

[3] From "Bucky Beaver".

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