From: dxforth@gmail.com   
      
   On 26/04/2025 9:07 pm, albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl wrote:   
   > In article ,   
   > dxf   wrote:   
   >> On 26/04/2025 2:34 am, Hans Bezemer wrote:   
   >>> ...   
   >>> Yeah, I have helped to make a proposal for PLACE and +PLACE - which never   
   even made it to the voting stage.   
   >>   
   >> It's a nice symmetry.  OTOH the remaining vendors use APPEND and why should   
   they change?   
   >>   
   >   
   > $+! was even earlier. It predates the IBM PC XT.   
   > (Osborne, CP/M)   
      
   Even PLACE was new back then!   
      
   String stacks often had $+ or equiv.  Somehow I never took to them.   
   Not enough applications that warranted the effort?   
      
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