alatto@ALEXANDER.BBN.COM.UUCP (08/28/87)
Resent-From: Bruce Nevin <bnevin@cch.bbn.com> Date: Thu, 20 Aug 87 16:07:17 -0400 From: Stephen Gildea <mit-erl!gildea@EDDIE.MIT.EDU> The first use of *askerisks* for emphasis that I know of is the game Adventure, which only assumed one case. This was 1967. Question: did the authors invent it, or were they using an already-common notation. < Stephen
jr@LF-SERVER-2.BBN.COM.UUCP (08/28/87)
>> From: Stephen Gildea <mit-erl!gildea@EDDIE.MIT.EDU> >> This was 1967. Well, maybe 1976. /jr