I wrote Task Manager and I just remembered something

The author claims in 1994, Saudi Arabia didn't handle 7-segment displays. This sounds fishy to me, were there really places as recently as the 1990's where a significant numerate population didn't use the same number symbols as we do?

And...isn't the common system of digits 0123456789 called Arabic numerals because it was invented in the present-day country of Saudi Arabia or somewhere nearby? Why would they of all countries use a different system?

> And...isn't the common system of digits 0123456789 called Arabic numerals because it was invented in the present-day country of Saudi Arabia or somewhere nearby?

No. The system was invented in India and the actual glyphs are probably derived from Bramhi script.

> Why would they of all countries use a different system?

Because they never used the symbols familiar to Western readers as Arabic numerals in the first place.

The author of that post has a YouTube channel called Dave's Garage[0], and has video series that cover development of Task Manager, Space Cadet Pinball, and others.

[0] https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCNzszbnvQeFzObW0ghk0Ckw

The post is from 3 years ago.