On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Andy Ball wrote:

> Hello Johnny,
>
>   JB> You weren't around when the VT100 was a product still
>     > sold, were you?
>
> I was around when they were introduced, but I probably did
> not have access to any computers until a few years after
> that.  I used VT100s quite a bit, but most of the time that
> was not on unix systems so perhaps I'm missing out on a unix
> convention.  This was some years ago anyway, so perhaps my
> memory is at fault (I've used a few other systems since
> then! ;-)

:-)
Not sure what systems you might have been using then. All DEC systems had
the delete key delete to the left. I'm a little weak on other vendors, so
I'll spare you my guesses, but my comment in another mail about deleting
to the right being pretty meaningless before line editing arrived stands,
and that probably goes for other vendors as well.

Like some others pointed out, Unix was kindof late getting info DEL,
preferring '#' earlier. So I'd definitely say it's not a Unix thing. I'm
kindof late getting into Unix as well, only started with it in the latter
half of the eighties. Was rasied on DEC OSes...

	Johnny

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