VESoft used to promote the idea of changing the prompt to "login:" so it would look like most other hosts of the time. I think they even had a script for it.
Although I think it would still be difficult to omit the hidden the DC1 character.
BT
Tracy Johnson
MSI Schaevitz Sensors
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