On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 1:51 PM Lars Brinkhoff <lars@nocrew.org> wrote:

Dave Horsfall wrote:
> Steve Nickolas wrote:
>> 86-DOS actually did use ":" as a prompt character.
> The best I've ever seen was RT-11's "." - talk about minimalist...
>
> Actually this thread probably belongs on COFF by now.

I was bound to happen. List all the prompts!

"*" seems popular on PDP-10s.

"@ " was the TOPS-20 prompt.

"$ " was the VMS prompt

RSTS/E was just "Ready\n"

But none of these get us closer to CP/M's > prompt.

Warner