On this day in 1778 businessman Oliver Pollock created the "$" sign, and
now we see it everywhere: shell prompts and variables, macro strings, Perl
variables, system references (SYS$BLAH, SWAP$SYS, etc), etc; where would
we be without it?
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Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will
suffer."