Relay computers - OR functionality - symbology

[Tony Duell]

> Having gotten the explanation as to why those operations were chosen, it
> does make sense and is somewhat elegant (I'll reluctantly concede), but
> it's still stupid as far as I'm concerned.  Why didn't they use * or X
> for AND then?

They did!. Or rather you normally use '.', which is also a conventional 
sign for multiplication (as it X.Y). IIRC it should actually be a dot 
halfway up the letter, not on the baseline, but that's not on my keyboard

-tony