Padegs says that "none of our operating systems were [sic] programmed
to turn in the [ASCII] bit".
So, no-one was able to use the ASCII facility.
These two statements are not fully the same. The former covers that none
of the operating systems provided a mechanism for a problem state program
https://www.cs.tufts.edu/comp/150FP/archive/alfred-spector/spector87ibm.pdf
Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp.
Poughkeepsie NY
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