On 18 Feb 2016, at 10:16, Hans Hagen <pra...@wxs.nl<mailto:pra...@wxs.nl>> 
wrote:

also, DEK used a keyboard with some special characters (probably dating from 
those assembler like computer languages) which is why the plain tex format has:

Could it have been a keyboard especially for the APL language? Just a wild 
guess, but I remember that language using a lot of such symbols.

Hans van der Meer

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