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| Jan 5, 2022 at 11:27 | comment | added | Moberg |
Apparently "splat" is jargon for asterisk *. catb.org/jargon/html/S/splat.html "Name used in many places (DEC, IBM, and others) for the asterisk (*) character (ASCII 0101010). This may derive from the ‘squashed-bug’ appearance of the asterisk on many early line printers."
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| Nov 30, 2017 at 18:28 | history | answered | Brad Solomon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |