Mniej wiecej Tue, May 10, 2005 at 12:07:23AM +0200, zainteresowany Pawel Sikora rzekl: > AFAIK, we inherit the unsigned default from AIX. > IBM made char unsigned to match what they'd done > on S/370 and AS/400 hardware. On those platforms, > IBM was using EBCDIC instead of ASCII, and needed > to make char unsigned to prevent regular characters > (basic numbers and letters) from being negative... > > But not many people were dumb enough to follow IBM.
Protoplast S/390 and AS/400 - S/360 was released in 1964, ASCII in 1965. Zbyniu -- \78\32\14\46\67\67\90\1A %% Timeo me dubitare %% _______________________________________________ pld-devel-en mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pld-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/pld-devel-en
