Re: slashed zero in HTML code listings?

Subject: Re: slashed zero in HTML code listings?
From: Peter Neilson <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net>
To: Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:51:25 -0400

Fortunately no one on this list is old enough to remember the IBM
standard in which the letter O (and not the number zero) had the slash.
And they weren't trying to use the Danish letter Ø. One wrote FØRTRAN,
for example.

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