Notation and terminology
Lars Brinkhoff edited this page Jul 15, 2023
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- User input looks like this.
- Program output, file names, etc
looks like this
. - Octal is often the default number base.
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Altmode means ASCII ESC, octal code 33. On screen it's printed as
$
or◊
. - Control characters are printed like
^X
or↑X
. - On old terminals,
^
and_
look like↑
and←
. This is due to the 1963 version of ASCII. - On a Knight TV keyboard, there is a CALL key which is used throughout in place of ^Z. On the emulator F1 is used for CALL.
- Job is a running program.