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2018-11-29 Thread Gary Jacek
THAT excuse | Computerworld SHARK TANK Tony Harminc wrote, in part: >These days it's almost impossible to get any mainstream search engine >to do exactly what you want. Though Google Verbatim mode is pretty close. I laughed a few years ago when there was a story about some p

Re: So much for THAT excuse | Computerworld SHARK TANK

2018-11-27 Thread Mike Schwab
https://mashable.com/2016/09/06/balls-stuck-ikea-chair/#7anJiUc2Bqqn Trapped in just the right size hole. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOcXcGaFHzs Stuck between magnets. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5531987/Hotel-guest-gets-testicles-trapped-plastic-chair-Spain.html Caught in sla

Re: So much for THAT excuse | Computerworld SHARK TANK

2018-11-27 Thread Phil Smith III
Tony Harminc wrote, in part: >These days it's almost impossible to get any mainstream search engine to do >exactly what you want. Though Google Verbatim mode is pretty close. I laughed a few years ago when there was a story about some poor guy who sat in a defective chair that crushed his

Re: So much for THAT excuse | Computerworld SHARK TANK

2018-11-27 Thread Tony Harminc
On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 at 14:40, Seymour J Metz wrote: > I hope not; some of gargles false hits have been absolutely ludicrous. > When it comes to search engines, I prefer Do What I Said, Not What You > Incorrectly Guessed I Meant. If you documentthat + means the term must be > present and I type a

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2018-11-26 Thread Seymour J Metz
: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Subject: Re: So much for THAT excuse | Computerworld SHARK TANK Maybe someday everything will be like Google, so I can type DNS= (which I do often enough) and the system will ask me "Did you mean DSN?" Just today I typed "sstar trek insurrection"

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2018-11-24 Thread Seymour J Metz
Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Phil Smith III Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2018 7:06 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: So much for THAT excuse | Computerworld SHARK TANK Tom Brennan wrote, in part: >Maybe someday everything will be like Google, so I can type DNS= (which >I

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2018-11-23 Thread Jim Ruddy
Or ask you if you meant "Disneyland"/ Jim On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 7:39 PM Tom Brennan wrote: > On 11/22/2018 4:06 PM, Phil Smith III wrote: > > Tom Brennan wrote, in part: > > > >> Maybe someday everything will be like Google, so I can type DNS= (which > >> I do often enough) and the system wil

Re: So much for THAT excuse | Computerworld SHARK TANK

2018-11-22 Thread Tom Brennan
On 11/22/2018 4:06 PM, Phil Smith III wrote: Tom Brennan wrote, in part: Maybe someday everything will be like Google, so I can type DNS= (which I do often enough) and the system will ask me "Did you mean DSN?" 30+ years ago, a friend wrote a CMS ENDCMD NUCEXT (a routine that got control at

Re: So much for THAT excuse | Computerworld SHARK TANK

2018-11-22 Thread Phil Smith III
Tom Brennan wrote, in part: >Maybe someday everything will be like Google, so I can type DNS= (which >I do often enough) and the system will ask me "Did you mean DSN?" 30+ years ago, a friend wrote a CMS ENDCMD NUCEXT (a routine that got control at the end of a console command) called DWIM -

Re: So much for THAT excuse | Computerworld SHARK TANK

2018-11-21 Thread Tom Brennan
On 11/21/2018 6:41 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: A half-century ago, I saw a magazine article suggesting that FORTRAN (*the* language then) should treat '0' and 'O' as interchangable. OK. I can write "C0NTINUE" instead of "CONTINUE". But it restricts the name space for variables. (And I wondered

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2018-11-21 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 18:29:41 -0800, Tom Brennan wrote: > >Just today I typed "sstar trek insurrection" into Google and I didn't >bother to fix the double ss or worry if I spelled that big word >correctly, because I knew Google would fix it for me. > A half-century ago, I saw a magazine article sug

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2018-11-21 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 21:02:31 -0500, Phil Smith III wrote: > >Yeah, that's bad too. It's always seemed to me that a well-designed system >would take input, uppercase the parts that don't need >case sensitivity (the non-USS bits, in z/OS, due to the historical UNIX >mistake-oops, there I go again!)

Re: So much for THAT excuse | Computerworld SHARK TANK

2018-11-21 Thread Tom Brennan
Maybe someday everything will be like Google, so I can type DNS= (which I do often enough) and the system will ask me "Did you mean DSN?" Just today I typed "sstar trek insurrection" into Google and I didn't bother to fix the double ss or worry if I spelled that big word correctly, because I k

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2018-11-21 Thread Phil Smith III
Gil wrote, in part: >"Right/wrong" and "broken/fixed" are highly subjective. True. I was being a bit provocative, deliberately. To the folks who mention other languages: I disbelieve that anyone was worried about those when UNIX was created. Happy to hear evidence to the contrary, but a r

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2018-11-21 Thread Seymour J Metz
: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2018 4:02 PM To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Subject: Re: So much for THAT excuse | Computerworld SHARK TANK On Tue, 20 Nov 2018 20:13:35 +, Seymour J Me

Re: So much for THAT excuse | Computerworld SHARK TANK

2018-11-21 Thread Seymour J Metz
o: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Subject: Re: So much for THAT excuse | Computerworld SHARK TANK On Tue, 20 Nov 2018 16:07:24 -0600, Tom Marchant wrote: >>> >>Doesn't UNPK just swap nybbles of the rightmost byte >It does do that. > >>and set all other zone bits to 0 regardless of

Re: Non-IBM computers using EBCDIC was Re: So much for THAT excuse | Computerworld SHARK TANK

2018-11-21 Thread Seymour J Metz
lf of Edward Finnell <000248cce9f3-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2018 6:25 PM To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Subject: Re: Non-IBM computers using EBCDIC was Re: So much for THAT excuse | Computerworld SHARK TANK We had an 1108 and an 1100 as "scientific

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2018-11-21 Thread Seymour J Metz
, November 21, 2018 11:12 AM To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Subject: Re: So much for THAT excuse | Computerworld SHARK TANK My takeaway from the Shark Tank story is that sometimes you CANNOT guess what the person at other end of the line is actually typing. I've had a few similar conversations

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2018-11-21 Thread Tom Marchant
On Tue, 20 Nov 2018 17:13:33 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >On Tue, 20 Nov 2018 16:07:24 -0600, Tom Marchant wrote about UNPK: >>It sets the zone bits to F when in EBCDIC mode and to 5 when in ASCII mode. >> >5? I would have expected 3: Yes, in retrospect, I would have expected 3 too. Remember

Re: So much for THAT excuse | Computerworld SHARK TANK

2018-11-21 Thread Jesse 1 Robinson
-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2018 7:17 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: (External):Re: So much for THAT excuse | Computerworld SHARK TANK On 2018-11-20, at 11:26:22, Phil Smith III wrote: > > I’ve also always been surprised that

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2018-11-21 Thread Mike Schwab
I think he was typing 0 and not ZERO. On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 9:28 AM Paul Gilmartin <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > On 2018-11-20, at 11:26:22, Phil Smith III wrote: > > > > I’ve also always been surprised that no *ix implementation ever bit the > > bullet and tried to

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2018-11-21 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On 2018-11-20, at 11:26:22, Phil Smith III wrote: > > I’ve also always been surprised that no *ix implementation ever bit the > bullet and tried to fix case sensitivity. Windows, of course, got it right; > alas, given the historical antipathy *ix folks have for Windoze, I fear > that’s all the

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2018-11-21 Thread Mohammad Khan
Calligraphic styles in Arabic (and other languages using the Arabic script) are more akin to fonts in western scripts. Letters do change shapes based on the context i.e. standing alone, at the beginning, middle or end of a word but that's nothing like upper / lower case. Shape of a letter does n

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2018-11-20 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 20 Nov 2018 23:19:09 +, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: >I don't happen to know of any language whose orthography has complex >upper-lower case correlations, but it's an intriguing idea. > See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_calligraphy >Meanwhile--aside from making students miserabl

Re: So much for THAT excuse | Computerworld SHARK TANK

2018-11-20 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 09:30:39 +1100, Andrew Rowley wrote: >On 21/11/2018 5:26 AM, Phil Smith III wrote: >> The funny part about case sensitivity is that if you ask a *ix person why >> it’s good, they almost universally assert that it is, but cannot come up >> with a reason why, OR a case where yo

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2018-11-20 Thread Andrew Rowley
On 21/11/2018 10:19 AM, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: I don't happen to know of any language whose orthography has complex upper-lower case correlations, but it's an intriguing idea. I have been searching for the reference where I read about it. This is the most general I have found: https://www.w

Re: Non-IBM computers using EBCDIC was Re: So much for THAT excuse | Computerworld SHARK TANK

2018-11-20 Thread Edward Finnell
We had an 1108 and an 1100 as "scientific machines". They were 36 bit words and did the 8 in 9 for EBCDIC and ASCII. I got pretty good with their FORTRAN and the advent of Data Space early on(mid 70's). I think the 7090's had an EBCDIC option for tapes, but it had an extra bit somewhere and we h

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2018-11-20 Thread Jesse 1 Robinson
ssion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Andrew Rowley Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2018 2:31 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: (External):Re: So much for THAT excuse | Computerworld SHARK TANK On 21/11/2018 5:26 AM, Phil Smith III wrote: > The funny part about case sensit

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2018-11-20 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 20 Nov 2018 16:07:24 -0600, Tom Marchant wrote: >>> >>Doesn't UNPK just swap nybbles of the rightmost byte >It does do that. > >>and set all other zone bits to 0 regardless of character set? >No. It never sets the zone bits to 0. >It sets the zone bits to F when in EBCDIC mode and to 5 whe

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2018-11-20 Thread Clark Morris
[Default] On 20 Nov 2018 10:26:36 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main li...@akphs.com (Phil Smith III) wrote: >The whole ASCII-EBCDIC thing certainly has been a huge cost—probably, as Gil >suggests, as large as the other two combined. But I’d argue that it wasn’t >necessarily either EBCDIC or ASCII’

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2018-11-20 Thread Andrew Rowley
On 21/11/2018 5:26 AM, Phil Smith III wrote: The funny part about case sensitivity is that if you ask a *ix person why it’s good, they almost universally assert that it is, but cannot come up with a reason why, OR a case where you would deliberately mix two files or commands with the same lett

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2018-11-20 Thread Tom Marchant
On Tue, 20 Nov 2018 15:02:19 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >On Tue, 20 Nov 2018 20:13:35 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: > >>The ASCII bit in the PSW affected only the decimal instructions, including >>UNPK. >> >Doesn't UNPK just swap nybbles of the rightmost byte It does do that. >and set all ot

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2018-11-20 Thread Mike Schwab
I think the ASCII machines converted punched tape to ASCII. On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 3:02 PM Paul Gilmartin <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Nov 2018 20:13:35 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: > > >The ASCII bit in the PSW affected only the decimal instructions, incl

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2018-11-20 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 20 Nov 2018 20:13:35 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >The ASCII bit in the PSW affected only the decimal instructions, including >UNPK. > Doesn't UNPK just swap nybbles of the rightmost byte and set all other zone bits to 0 regardless of character set? >It did not affect how the card read

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2018-11-20 Thread Seymour J Metz
of Edward Finnell <000248cce9f3-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2018 4:04 PM To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Subject: Re: So much for THAT excuse | Computerworld SHARK TANK I don't remember the terminal # but it had APL support with the IBM Selectric APL

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2018-11-20 Thread Seymour J Metz
Paul Gilmartin <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2018 4:19 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: So much for THAT excuse | Computerworld SHARK TANK On Mon, 19 Nov 2018 15:52:44 -0500, Tony Harminc wrote: >> > >> >Case sensi

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2018-11-20 Thread Seymour J Metz
@listserv.ua.edu Subject: Re: So much for THAT excuse | Computerworld SHARK TANK Two things. Not all mainframes were EBCDIC based. Some were field data based yet handled the translation to/from ASCII and to/from EBCDIC. Burroughs used EBCDIC but sign bits were on the opposite end of a word as I recall. S

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2018-11-20 Thread Seymour J Metz
metz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Pew, Curtis G Sent: Monday, November 19, 2018 5:39 PM To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Subject: Re: So much for THAT excuse | Computerworld SHARK TANK On Nov 19, 2018, at 4:26 PM, Steve Thompson wrote: >

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2018-11-20 Thread Seymour J Metz
Paul Gilmartin <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2018 8:31 PM To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Subject: Re: So much for THAT excuse | Computerworld SHARK TANK On Mon, 19 Nov 2018 15:54:58 -0800, Tom Brennan wrote: >On 11/19/2018 2:39 PM, Pew, Curti

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2018-11-20 Thread Seymour J Metz
Subject: Re: So much for THAT excuse | Computerworld SHARK TANK I ran into that type of debugging on a shared IBM 3278 with that switch set to show all caps. It probably took me 15 minutes to figure out why JES2 was telling me "DSN=" was invalid in the JCL I just modified. It looked f

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2018-11-20 Thread Seymour J Metz
metz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2018 9:02 PM To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Subject: Re: So much for THAT excuse | Computerworld SHARK TANK On Mon,

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2018-11-20 Thread Seymour J Metz
: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Phil Smith III Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2018 1:26 PM To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Subject: Re: So much for THAT excuse | Computerworld SHARK TANK The whole ASCII-EBCDIC thing certainly has been a huge cost—probably, as Gil suggests, as large as the othe

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2018-11-20 Thread Tom Marchant
On Mon, 19 Nov 2018 22:39:08 +, Pew, Curtis G wrote: >On Nov 19, 2018, at 4:26 PM, Steve Thompson wrote: >> >>S/360 machines I worked on had a switch in the PSW to set >>them in ASCII mode. >> > >Right. The expectation was that routines would check the bit >and generate output in the appro

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2018-11-20 Thread Phil Smith III
The whole ASCII-EBCDIC thing certainly has been a huge cost—probably, as Gil suggests, as large as the other two combined. But I’d argue that it wasn’t necessarily either EBCDIC or ASCII’s fault, just that they evolved in parallel and neither truly “won” [insert another debate about what “winnin

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2018-11-20 Thread Allan Staller
DU Subject: Re: So much for THAT excuse | Computerworld SHARK TANK On Mon, 19 Nov 2018 15:52:44 -0500, Tony Harminc wrote: >> > >> >Case sensitivity and null-terminated strings: two historical Unix mistakes >> >that have cost untold billions. >> > >>

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2018-11-19 Thread Steve Thompson
-Original Message- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On >> Behalf Of Pew, Curtis G >> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2018 2:39 PM >> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >> Subject: (External):Re: So much for THAT excuse | Computerworld SHAR

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2018-11-19 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 20 Nov 2018 02:05:42 +, David Spiegel wrote: >CDC ... Txed? > Don't remember. >(i did CDC way back in '80. I had  a lot of fun with their unusual JCL >and Negative Zeroes.) > IBM 70[49]* had negative zeroes. Both IBM and CDC FORTRANs read in a blank field as "-0". There was signifi

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2018-11-19 Thread David Spiegel
CDC ... Txed? (i did CDC way back in '80. I had  a lot of fun with their unusual JCL and Negative Zeroes.) On 2018-11-19 21:02, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On Mon, 19 Nov 2018 17:46:43 -0800, Tom Brennan wrote: > >> I ran into that type of debugging on a shared IBM 3278 with that switch >> set to sho

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2018-11-19 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 19 Nov 2018 17:46:43 -0800, Tom Brennan wrote: >I ran into that type of debugging on a shared IBM 3278 with that switch >set to show all caps. It probably took me 15 minutes to figure out why >JES2 was telling me "DSN=" was invalid in the JCL I just modified. It >looked fine on the scree

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2018-11-19 Thread Tony Harminc
On Mon, 19 Nov 2018 at 17:39, Pew, Curtis G wrote: > Right. The expectation was that routines would check the bit and generate output in the appropriate codeset, and eventually everyone would be using ASCII. Instead, everyone ignored the bit and generated EBCDIC, so the bit was reused for somethi

Re: So much for THAT excuse | Computerworld SHARK TANK

2018-11-19 Thread Tom Brennan
ist [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Pew, Curtis G Sent: Monday, November 19, 2018 2:39 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: (External):Re: So much for THAT excuse | Computerworld SHARK TANK On Nov 19, 2018, at 4:26 PM, Steve Thompson wrote: S/360 machines I worked on had a switc

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2018-11-19 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 19 Nov 2018 15:54:58 -0800, Tom Brennan wrote: >On 11/19/2018 2:39 PM, Pew, Curtis G wrote: > >> Right. The expectation was that routines would check the bit and generate >> output in the appropriate codeset, and eventually everyone would be using >> ASCII. Instead, everyone ignored the

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2018-11-19 Thread Tom Brennan
On 11/19/2018 2:39 PM, Pew, Curtis G wrote: Right. The expectation was that routines would check the bit and generate output in the appropriate codeset, and eventually everyone would be using ASCII. Instead, everyone ignored the bit and generated EBCDIC, so the bit was reused for something el

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2018-11-19 Thread Mike Schwab
Bit 12 was repurposed on S/370 came out, to indicate 370 BC/EC PSW mode. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/360#Notes On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 4:39 PM Pew, Curtis G wrote: > > On Nov 19, 2018, at 4:26 PM, Steve Thompson wrote: > > > > S/360 machines I worked on had a switch in the PSW to set

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2018-11-19 Thread Jesse 1 Robinson
urtis G Sent: Monday, November 19, 2018 2:39 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: (External):Re: So much for THAT excuse | Computerworld SHARK TANK On Nov 19, 2018, at 4:26 PM, Steve Thompson wrote: > > S/360 machines I worked on had a switch in the PSW to set them in ASCII mode.

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2018-11-19 Thread Pew, Curtis G
On Nov 19, 2018, at 4:26 PM, Steve Thompson wrote: > > S/360 machines I worked on had a switch in the PSW to set them in ASCII mode. > I don’t remember or know of any software that made use of this. So that bit > was eventually required to be ON to force DAT or XA. I have forgotten what > that

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2018-11-19 Thread Steve Thompson
Two things. Not all mainframes were EBCDIC based. Some were field data based yet handled the translation to/from ASCII and to/from EBCDIC. Burroughs used EBCDIC but sign bits were on the opposite end of a word as I recall. S/360 machines I worked on had a switch in the PSW to set them in ASCII

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2018-11-19 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 19 Nov 2018 15:52:44 -0500, Tony Harminc wrote: >> > >> >Case sensitivity and null-terminated strings: two historical Unix mistakes >> >that have cost untold billions. >> > >> And EBCDIC tops them both. Just count the problems discussed on these lists. > >I'd say it's an "EBCDIC in an ASC

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2018-11-19 Thread David Spiegel
2741 On 2018-11-19 16:04, Edward Finnell wrote: > I don't remember the terminal # but it had APL support with the IBM Selectric > APL ball(circa '69). Cold winter day with mittens and scarfs the APL prof > fumbled the ball onto the linoleum floor and it shattered. We ordered three > for backup

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2018-11-19 Thread Pew, Curtis G
On Nov 19, 2018, at 2:52 PM, Tony Harminc wrote: > > I'd say it's an "EBCDIC in an ASCII world" problem; not anything > fundamentally wrong with EBCDIC. Imagine if the original IBM PC had > been an EBCDIC machine. OS/2 and Windows would surely have followed, > Unicode would've been EBCDIC-based,

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2018-11-19 Thread Edward Finnell
I don't remember the terminal # but it had APL support with the IBM Selectric APL ball(circa '69). Cold winter day with mittens and scarfs the APL prof fumbled the ball onto the linoleum floor and it shattered. We ordered three for backup and found the last one during remodeling in '03. In a me

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2018-11-19 Thread David Spiegel
Discussion List on behalf of > David Spiegel > Sent: Monday, November 19, 2018 2:52 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu > Subject: Re: So much for THAT excuse | Computerworld SHARK TANK > > If they had APL support, yes. Otherwise, no. > > On 2018-11-19 13:59,

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2018-11-19 Thread Tony Harminc
On Mon, 19 Nov 2018 at 14:39, Paul Gilmartin <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > On Mon, 19 Nov 2018 13:13:25 -0500, Phil Smith III wrote: > > > >Case sensitivity and null-terminated strings: two historical Unix mistakes > >that have cost untold billions. > > > And EBCDIC t

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2018-11-19 Thread Seymour J Metz
behalf of Paul Gilmartin <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2018 2:38 PM To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Subject: Re: So much for THAT excuse | Computerworld SHARK TANK On Mon, 19 Nov 2018 13:13:25 -0500, Phil Smith III wrote: > >Case sensitiv

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2018-11-19 Thread Seymour J Metz
018 2:52 PM To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Subject: Re: So much for THAT excuse | Computerworld SHARK TANK If they had APL support, yes. Otherwise, no. On 2018-11-19 13:59, Seymour J Metz wrote: > We had lower case on *our* 3277 displays. YMMV. > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) M

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2018-11-19 Thread David Spiegel
iegel > Sent: Monday, November 19, 2018 1:48 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: So much for THAT excuse | Computerworld SHARK TANK > > Chuck: 3277? > > On 2018-11-19 13:32, Chuck Kreiter wrote: >> First OS/390 install I did kept failing on the Unix Sys

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2018-11-19 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 19 Nov 2018 13:13:25 -0500, Phil Smith III wrote: > >Case sensitivity and null-terminated strings: two historical Unix mistakes >that have cost untold billions. > And EBCDIC tops them both. Just count the problems discussed on these lists. -- gil ---

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2018-11-19 Thread Seymour J Metz
Paul Gilmartin <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2018 2:16 PM To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Subject: Re: So much for THAT excuse | Computerworld SHARK TANK On Mon, 19 Nov 2018 18:59:28 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >We had lower case on *our* 3277 displ

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2018-11-19 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 19 Nov 2018 18:59:28 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >We had lower case on *our* 3277 displays. YMMV. > I remember using a clone 327x that transmitted either case depending on use of the shift key, but folded all to majuscule for display. Ouch! And no caps lock, but a shift lock that mechan

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2018-11-19 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 19 Nov 2018 11:23:50 -0500, Mark Regan wrote: >https://www.computerworld.com/article/3322124/data-center/so-much-for-that-excuse.html > (I went to Google translate.) It may be pronounced the same, but spelled differently. And even spelled aloud it may sound the same. Did he try "Zulu E

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2018-11-19 Thread Chuck Kreiter
my head on the desk for a > couple of days on that one. > > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Phil Smith III > Sent: Monday, November 19, 2018 1:13 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >

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2018-11-19 Thread Seymour J Metz
: So much for THAT excuse | Computerworld SHARK TANK Chuck: 3277? On 2018-11-19 13:32, Chuck Kreiter wrote: > First OS/390 install I did kept failing on the Unix System Services steps. > The terminal I had only did uppercase. Once I swapped it out with one that > did both cases, it wo

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2018-11-19 Thread David Spiegel
> days on that one. > > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Phil Smith III > Sent: Monday, November 19, 2018 1:13 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: So much for THAT excuse |

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2018-11-19 Thread Chuck Kreiter
Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Phil Smith III Sent: Monday, November 19, 2018 1:13 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: So much for THAT excuse | Computerworld SHARK TANK Nice. I once got on a plane to go to a customer site because they could NOT get an SNMP

Re: So much for THAT excuse | Computerworld SHARK TANK

2018-11-19 Thread Phil Smith III
Nice. I once got on a plane to go to a customer site because they could NOT get an SNMP common string accepted. As I had at least half suspected, they were entering it in uppercase, despite multiple explicit attempts to get them to enter it in lowercase. (Yes, I'd suggested WebEx or equivale

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2018-11-19 Thread Mark Regan
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