An abridged list of actual HOLY SHIT TERRIFYING error messages from an early word processor (WPS) from 1976.pic.twitter.com/Ia3QQ0VQNa
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(The IBM 5150 manual makes references to terminals.)
My guess is that they didn’t really look at Wang and so on (specialized machines), and borrowed from earlier computers/terminals.
So ESC was the key for ANSI/ECMA 0x1B and it just morphed into a general "cancel whatever you're doing now" key?
Yep, I believe so. As full-screen interfaces and later GUIs arrived, it took on this other meaning.
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