On 2016-02-19 15:08, Gibney, David Allen,Jr wrote: >> >> EBCDIC is a pain. It should have been ASCII. Or IBM should finish >> implementation of Enhanced ASCII support. > > Can you really imagine the level of acceptance (NOT) that would have received > 2.5 decades ago :) > I imagine that those clamoring for POSIX conformance had such a background that they were familiar with ASCII, comfortable with it, and would have welcomed it.
Although there's room to suspect a second agenda. Those ostensibly clamoring for POSIX were covertly trying to build a Trumpwall to keep the mainframe out of their shops. ASCII wouldn't have affected that agenda. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
