From... Re: Ported Tools - Unix " old reference that EBCDIC was one of the biggest goofs for 360 ... was supposed to have been ascii ... "EBCDIC and the P-Bit (The Biggest Computer Goof Ever)" http://www.bobbemer.com/P-BIT.HTM "
This is fascinating. Someone should put this on Wikipedia. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN