On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 17:29:10 -0800, Edward Jaffe wrote: > >I would also add that -- with 21st century hindsight and certainly not a >design mistake per se -- it sure would have been lucky if they had >standardized on ASCII instead of EBCDIC!
I don't know how lucky it would have been, with the goofy USASCII-8 that was documented in the 360 POO. For example, space was defined as x'40', numbers as x'50' to x'59', upper case letters began with x'A1' and lower case letters began with x'E1'. Remember that ASCII was a very new standard when the 360 was introduced. EBCDIC wasn't a standard, but there were a lot of old peripherals that used it. -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
