On 6/20/2013 11:28 AM, Roland Kinsman wrote:
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
In my estimation the problem was not the P-bit design, but using EBCDIC at all. It would have been relatively simple to adopt ASCII for the S/360 line, with only minor changes to the peripheral gear. Non-ASCII characters could have been placed in the x'80'+ space, similar to the PC-8 character set.
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