12 Jun
2009
12 Jun
'09
8:11 a.m.
At Sun, 7 Jun 2009 11:02:03 +0200, Nicolas Cellier wrote:
That's an old story. ASCII 1963 had a left arrow (that then became an underscore) and an up arrow (now the caret), so as many keyboard of th 60s.
If I understand it correctly, ASCII 63 did not have a left arrow. ISO decided to dump it at the ISO/TC97/SC2 meeting 1963, and ASCII adopted the decision, too. There was some backward compatibility transition time when companies stick to the left arrow for like a decade and some software at that time was using it.
-- Yoshiki