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Subject: terminal iconography
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Date: Fri, 28-Aug-87 04:14:26 EDT
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Resent-From: Bruce Nevin <bnevin@cch.bbn.com>
Date:    Thu, 20 Aug 87 16:07:17 -0400 
From:    Stephen Gildea <mit-erl!gildea@EDDIE.MIT.EDU>

The first use of *askerisks* for emphasis that I know of is the game
Adventure, which only assumed one case.  This was 1967.  Question:
did the authors invent it, or were they using an already-common
notation.

 < Stephen