30 Oct
2019
30 Oct
'19
1:01 p.m.
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.)