Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: erik@morgan.com (Erik T. Mueller) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Sextile Message-ID: Date: 8 Jun 89 13:04:28 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Morgan Stanley & Co. NY, NY Lines: 11 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 191, message 2 of 9 There has been much discussion (on comp.dcom.telecom and comp.lang.c) about the term "octothorpe" for the "#" symbol on a touchtone pad. As I had mentioned in an earlier posting, I first heard this term in the mid 1970's in the Bell Northern Research (of Canada) research journal called "Telesis", and have never seen the term used in AT&T or BOC publications. What apparently has not yet surfaced in the discussions, is that, along with octothorpe, Telesis also used the term "sextile" for the "*" symbol on the pad. -Erik (erik@morgan.com)