Comment on A Mystery of Unix HistoryComments−Miner49er6yHere's someone asking about it in an old newsgroup from 1993:https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.terminals/a73kE...−taborj6yInteresting to note that on my current Linux system, both CTRL-3 (ESC) and CTRL-8 (backspace) work as well.−Jaruzel6yAnd so they should. They are both standard ASCII codes.
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Here's someone asking about it in an old newsgroup from 1993:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.terminals/a73kE...
Interesting to note that on my current Linux system, both CTRL-3 (ESC) and CTRL-8 (backspace) work as well.
And so they should. They are both standard ASCII codes.