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A comment on Intel to Discontinue Itanium 9700 ‘Kittson’ Processor, the Last of the Itaniums. Parent comment

Re:Intel to Discontinue Itanium 9700 ‘Kittson’ Processor, th... by bluedino on Saturday February 02, 2019 @03:32PM (#19065512)
Slashdot posters would use ^H^H in their posts (backspace)
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Re:Intel to Discontinue Itanium 9700 ‘Kittson’ Processor, th... by lscotte on Saturday February 02, 2019 @04:33PM (#19065871)
It goes back way further than that - probably to the dawn of IRC or so.
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Re:Intel to Discontinue Itanium 9700 ‘Kittson’ Processor, th... by pjscott on Saturday February 02, 2019 @05:56PM (#19066347)
I believe it dates back to the unix talk(1) program, quite a bit earlier than IRC.
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Re:Intel to Discontinue Itanium 9700 ‘Kittson’ Processor, th... by TheCondor on Saturday February 02, 2019 @09:02PM (#19067307)
It’s from the dec terminal emulation, VT100. I think specifically when you connected to like an ansi type system with dec mode. Or something like that, the memories are fuzzy
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Re:Intel to Discontinue Itanium 9700 ‘Kittson’ Processor, th... by lscotte on Friday February 08, 2019 @08:16AM (#19113814)
The keystroke certainly does, but I was talking about people inserting ^h and ^w in the middle of conversations, which is a bit harder to nail down, though the practice is older than the parent thought.
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Re:Intel to Discontinue Itanium 9700 ‘Kittson’ Processor, th... by mark-r on Saturday February 02, 2019 @10:17PM (#19067594)
^H was backspace on teletypes, which probably dates back to the 1960's.
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