Johnny Billquist wrote:
>>I was using ^H as the default for erase for a good three years before
>>the damn PC was ever even invented, perhaps even longer on non-unix
>>systems.
> 
> 
> Which systems, if I may ask?
> I know that DG was a little perverted, but I can guarantee that you didn't
> use BS on any DEC OS...
I've been using ^H as character erase since 1975, and on Unix since
1979 (I had to set it myself, but that's easy enough).
It is, after all, the natural choice!
(There, had to throw some gasoline on the fire. :)

	-- Lennart