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Subject: Re: Response to <569@tjalk.UUCP> <1660@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU> <1620@wucs.UUCP>
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Date: Sun, 27-Apr-86 16:18:00 EDT
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Posted: Sun Apr 27 16:18:00 1986
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In article <1620@wucs.UUCP> nz@wucs.UUCP (Neal Ziring) writes:
>The way I originally heard it from DEC-20 hacks was:
> . . .
>	^Z	ctrl-Z was originally the C-M- prefix...  ^Z was chosen
>		because it is near where the META key is on keyboards
>		with META keys.
Actually, some even earlier history:  on ITS, ^Z was the EMACS exit,
and ^C was C-M- (I think).  Tops-20 people at SRI and Stanford who
grabbed ITS Emacs didn't like it, so browbeat RMS into agreeing that
meanings of ^C and ^Z should be switched.  Needless to say, this left
a situation that was very confusing to those of us who were using both
ITS and Twenex EMACS; good thing "CONTINUE" existed!