[COFF] Comparative promptology
Lars Brinkhoff
lars at nocrew.org
Wed Oct 30 17:01:52 AEST 2019
Warner Losh wrote:
> But none of these get us closer to CP/M's > prompt.
To me > suggests an arrow indicating "enter your input here". Pure
speculation of course.
Interestingly, some ITS programs does the exact opposite. They use the
1963 ASCII character "left arrow" as a prompt. (Today it just outputs
as an underscore but printed texts and screenshots show that the 1963
character set was in use.)
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