Where is Segmentation Fault???
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Replying to @ChrisKraken @mwichary
Not sure if WPS refers to Word Perfect or MS Works (had .wps files). Either way, I think DOS-based so no segfaults (unix terminology).
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Replying to @JaRail @ChrisKraken
It was a Wang Laboratories WPS machine.
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"Press EXECUTE": dead giveaway.
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Replying to @RrrichardZach @mwichary and
Why don't our keyboards have "Cancel" keys? Did Wang have a patent on it? Or "Escape" chosen just to not conflict with Wang, and it stuck?
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A good question. I can speculate that the IBM PC 5150 keyboard that influenced all of them today has [Esc] because earlier terminals did…
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Replying to @mwichary @RrrichardZach and
…(and earlier home computers influenced by terminals?), and the key sort of inherited its current meaning some time later in the 1980s.
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Replying to @mwichary @RrrichardZach and
Or perhaps it was even added explicitly in 1981 for terminal emulation.
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Replying to @mwichary @RrrichardZach and
(The IBM 5150 manual makes references to terminals.)
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Replying to @mwichary @RrrichardZach and
My guess is that they didn’t really look at Wang and so on (specialized machines), and borrowed from earlier computers/terminals.
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(I’m still trying to find info in IBM Archives + ask some people who have been around.)
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