From: muta...@gmail.com   
      
   On Sunday, December 5, 2021 at 9:50:13 AM UTC+11, Grant Taylor wrote:   
      
   > > What is the logic behind this functionality? Bells have nothing   
   > > to do with display. Meaning stdout is not a display stream.   
      
   > Teletypes, a descendant of typewriters, /did/ have a physical bell on them.   
   >   
   > The bell was used to get someone's attention for one reason or another.   
      
   And if I had designed a teletype in the same era that had a   
   coffee maker attached, would the designers of ASCII have   
   reserved a control character to switch it on?   
      
   It's not to get someone's attention, it's to keep them awake.   
   A similar principle. What is the principle of the data stream   
   that is sent to a terminal?   
      
   BFN. Paul.   
      
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