[Info-vax] VMS-based InfoServer

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

On 2010-08-05 21:34, Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
> MetaEd wrote:
>> On Aug 5, 2:41 am, hel... at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---
>> undress to reply) wrote:
>>> "=" is a poor choice of escape. Some rarer character, such as
>>> "\" (used by TeX, for this reason) would have been better.
>>
>> Yes, and was considered. But backslash would not reliably pass through
>> EBCDIC gateways, which (believe it or not) was a major headache at the
>> time. The author of the quoted-printable spec wrote that the following
>> characters could not be counted on to get through: !"#$@[\]^`{|}~
>
> Does *anyone* still use EBCDIC?

Well, a large deal of international banking, flight reservations
and other large company OLTP processing does. Never heard about
"mainframes" or a company called IBM ? Google them ! :-)