Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!ukc!pyrltd!mwuk!tony From: tony@mwuk.UUCP (Tony Mountifield) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Name that character! Message-ID: <448@mwuk.UUCP> Date: 29 May 91 12:48:16 GMT References: <10599@castle.ed.ac.uk> Distribution: comp Organization: Microware Systems (UK) Ltd., Winchester, UK. Lines: 17 In article subbarao@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kartik Subbarao) writes: > In article <10599@castle.ed.ac.uk> eanv20@castle.ed.ac.uk (John Woods) writes: > > # hash > pound -- DEFINITELY pound :-) I have never understood why this gets called a "pound" sign in the US. Could it be something to do with the fact that many UK terminals and printers put the pound-sterling symbol on ASCII 0x23, which comes out on US equipment as '#' (which is DEFINITELY "hash" :-) ? Tony. -- Tony Mountifield. | Microware Systems (UK) Ltd. MAIL: tony@mwuk.uucp | Leylands Farm, Nobs Crook, INET: tony%mwuk.uucp@ukc.ac.uk | Colden Common, WINCHESTER, SO21 1TH. UUCP: ...!mcsun!ukc!mwuk!tony | Tel: 0703 601990 Fax: 0703 601991 **** OS-9, OS-9000 Real Time Systems **** MS-DOS - just say "No!" ****