[comp.dcom.telecom] Sextile

erik@morgan.com (Erik T. Mueller) (06/08/89)

There has been much discussion (on comp.dcom.telecom and comp.lang.c) about the
term "octothorpe" for the "#" symbol on a touchtone pad. As I had mentioned in
an earlier posting, I first heard this term in the mid 1970's in the Bell
Northern Research (of Canada) research journal called "Telesis", and have never
seen the term used in AT&T or BOC publications.

What apparently has not yet surfaced in the discussions, is that, along with
octothorpe, Telesis also used the term "sextile" for the "*" symbol on the pad.

-Erik
(erik@morgan.com)