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From: Miklos@YALE.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: re: Basic translation problem
Message-ID: <662@sri-arpa.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 10-May-84 14:48:22 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 10 14:48:22 1984
Date-Received: Mon, 14-May-84 01:01:09 EDT
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From:     Stephen Miklos <Miklos@YALE.ARPA>

The square bracket in trs-80 basic is the exponentiation
operator. This used to be an up-arrow, but in the model III
the up-arrow cannot be displayed, so it became the
bracket. Magazines began printing their listings this way
so as not to confuse Model III owners.
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