[ih] Fwd: Reporter query on the history of greater-than in quoted replies

[Bill Ricker]

On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 11:38 AM, Scott Brim <scott.brim at gmail.com> wrote:

> How were tabs shown (if shown) on early terminals?


​I vaguely recall some terminals, maybe WECO TTYs?, using arrows (single
char wide) -> and <- ​ for TAB and BS?
Are you suggesting back-formation from that to >  is plausible ?

( FWIW Glenn F is a good guy, and as tech savvy as tech reporter should be.
I believe he does his own programming on his hobby websites. )



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