From: John W Kennedy (jwkenne@attglobal.net)
Date: Wed Jun 09 2010 - 15:10:46 CDT
On Jun 8, 2010, at 4:20 PM, Robert Abel wrote:
> So I don't think that we _could do without_ those characters having different code points today. Even back then it must have seemed like a hack to type a lowercase L instead of a 1.
It did, young feller, it did, by cracky! And, as a matter of fact, electric typewriters had a slightly different keyboard, one including proper 1, 0, and ! keys.
-- John W Kennedy "The bright critics assembled in this volume will doubtless show, in their sophisticated and ingenious new ways, that, just as /Pooh/ is suffused with humanism, our humanism itself, at this late date, has become full of /Pooh./" -- Frederick Crews. "Postmodern Pooh", Preface
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