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History of Emacs and vi Keys (2010)
> On an ASR33 Teletype, backspace simply moved the carriage one character position to the left.
Exactly what a typewriter would do because it couldn't erase the ink on the paper.
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Exactly what a typewriter would do because it couldn't erase the ink on the paper.