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Re:Pipe Logic – Simulating circuits in the Unix shell (2011) by mmjaa on Sunday October 01, 2017 @02:29PM (#15379119)
To me (Unix guy since 1980) the & character has always been "submit this command .. AND .. <the next thing I type>" .. so yeah, it seems like it actually did fulfil what you consider its 'original intention' - which was to allow you to submit a command, AND .. another one ..
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