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Re:Intel to Discontinue Itanium 9700 ‘Kittson’ Processor, th... by otabdeveloper2 on Saturday February 02, 2019 @02:43PM (#19065189)
"^W" is this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-of-Transmission-Block_char...

In Unix line editors it is traditionally used to mean 'erase the previous word'.

See also documentation for ASCII (http://www.robelle.com/smugbook/ascii.html for example) for origins of ^C, ^D, ^S, etc.

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Re:Intel to Discontinue Itanium 9700 ‘Kittson’ Processor, th... by nonamenoslogan on Sunday February 03, 2019 @10:44AM (#19070164)
As an HP3000 programmer I still refer to this link fairly often. Ah MPE, its a strange one.
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