@jernej__s @grishka @tubetime Back in the day I've...

@jernej__s @grishka @tubetime Back in the day I've had a locally assembled XT (Ivel Trend) with an EGA screen and a small program that would change all the "unused" letters into letter with diacritics, but my brother got localized Olivetti M24 PC with Olivetti's version of CGA graphics, and he wasn't able to switch from weirdly looking DOS prompt - C:Đ> 😅

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Григорий Клюшников

Neven, Japanese Windows, to this day, shows "￥" as a path separator because of some quirk of Japanese DOS character encoding and people getting used to it.

1 1 Oct 2023 at 9:20

Jernej Simončič �

@elkarrde @grishka @tubetime Yeah, C:Đ> was what we had for the first few years, too (and ŠĆ instead of [], on Hercules card), until my father bought a VGA card and monitor and we switched to CP852.

1 Oct 2023 at 9:39 | Open on infosec.exchange

Neven Falica

@jernej__s @grishka @tubetime Yup, I remember that!

1 Oct 2023 at 9:43 | Open on ohai.social

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