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From: clarke@csri.toronto.edu (Jim Clarke)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,comp.software-eng
Subject: Re^2: := and Flexowriters
Message-ID: <1989Oct8.154002.3248@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Date: 8 Oct 89 19:40:03 GMT
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torkil@psivax.UUCP (Torkil Hammer) writes:


>...Flexo codes included some characters not available on the typewriter, but
>not the back arrow....

I just looked at some Flexowriter output I happen to have lying around,
and it does have the right arrow.  This suggests that a back arrow might
have existed too.  (Since the output is in an editing command for an
assembly-language program it wouldn't have needed the back arrow.)
Perhaps there were different models of Flexowriter?

Sigh:  I liked KDF-9 assembler, in a way it's not possible to like assembler
for certain better-known machines.  And I learned to live with the Flexowriter.
Those were the days....  (The three extra dots mean, as usual, "when I was
young."  Why else would this discussion be going on so long?)