[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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