RE: Splat! (was Re: C Language) -- MIDRANGE-L

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SPLAT in the S/38 world was a battleship game.  Anyone remember?

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Steve Morrison
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 4:00 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Splat! (was Re: C Language)

It's interesting how different, related communities develop different terms
for the same thing. In the S/38 world * = splat, while in the S/34/36 world
* = star

Steve Morrison
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940-720-4672 

-----Original Message-----
From: James H H Lampert [mailto:jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 4:00 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Splat! (was Re: C Language)

>  Name used in many places (DEC, IBM, and others) for the
>     asterisk ("*") character (ASCII 0101010). This may derive
>         from the "squashed-bug" appearance of the asterisk on many
>             early line printers.

Funny: I thought a "splat" was the cloverleaf symbol on the "Command" key
of a Macintosh keyboard.

--
JHHL

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