On Fri, 1 Jul 2022, Lars Brinkhoff wrote:
Steve Nickolas wrote:
Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:
Some other O/Ses have used Ctrl-Z for that
purpose, presumably
because Z is the final letter of numerous alphabets.
I thought only CP/M and its descendants did that.
Also TOPS-10. And proably other DEC operating systems, but I don't know
much about those. I believe CP/M was inspired by many of the DEC
traditions,
Yeah. As, independent of its position as a knockoff CP/M, was the
original MS-DOS (2.0 brought in a few things from Xenix).
-uso.