At 07:19 -0600 on 08/05/2006, Steve Comstock wrote about Re: Why is
JCL allergic to lower case?:
... Or that the mainframe would handle ASCII ...
Originally the 360 Series COULD handle ASCII - There was a bit in the
PSW that flipped it from an EBCDIC to an ASCII machine. That bit
later got made reserved and subsequently got repurposed with a new
meaning.
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