On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 10:28:27 -0500 Clem Cole <cl...@ccc.com> wrote: > The using > EBCDIC > instead of > ASCII > was a sad thing. IBM had been heavy in development of ASCII and I > believe even chaired the ANSI committee creating it. In fact if you look > at marketing literature, S360 was supposed to be the > first commercial system to support it. But with OS/360 being so late, > Brooks was said to make the decision to keep the primary code EBCDIC (for > compatibility). Until the switch to Power years 25+ years later, IBM > (and its users) would pay that price.
There was no switch to POWER. The very latest z Archicture machines still use EBCDIC and it has never been an issue. Yeah, we prefer big-endian too. _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
