From 0d1f0884dc4d8cc7dc60b3cd54c4513e88c8ac46 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeff Parsons Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2016 23:24:01 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Another blog post --- _posts/2016-12-02-the-pdp-11-and-vt100-revisited.md | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/_posts/2016-12-02-the-pdp-11-and-vt100-revisited.md b/_posts/2016-12-02-the-pdp-11-and-vt100-revisited.md index 4a7f9998f..1d5b4f48f 100644 --- a/_posts/2016-12-02-the-pdp-11-and-vt100-revisited.md +++ b/_posts/2016-12-02-the-pdp-11-and-vt100-revisited.md @@ -33,8 +33,7 @@ the VT100 simulation) makes a valiant effort to keep it in sync with your own ke One more comment about BACKSPACE and DELETE: in the post-PDP-11, post-VT100 world of the IBM PC, BACKSPACE has come to mean "delete the character to the *left* of the cursor," and DELETE now means "delete the character *under* the cursor." - -Those are NOT what those keys meant to a typical VT100 user. BACKSPACE was originally a *non-destructive* leftward +Those are NOT what those keys meant to the average VT100 user. BACKSPACE was originally a *non-destructive* leftward movement of the cursor, whereas DELETE was a *destructive* leftward movement. So DELETE on a VT100 is what an IBM PC user would think of as BACKSPACE. To make matters worse, some modern keyboards now label the traditional BACKSPACE key as DELETE.