Bliss was Re: DEC program listing

Cameron Kaiser spectre at floodgap.com
Tue Aug 16 09:58:38 CDT 2005


> It's the other way around, but in early ASCII standards where we now
> have underbar was instead back-arrow.  (And instead of caret there was
> up-arrow).  I think the intention was to use it as an assignment  
> operator.

Commodore 8-bits are that way. The <- key on the upper left is ASCII 95, same
as _, and the caret is an up arrow.

However, Commodore BASIC uses =  :-)

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