[Info-vax] AlphaVM-free emulator with all additional peripheral components
Bob Koehler
koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org
Wed Aug 1 09:56:33 EDT 2012
In article <jv98d1$kg2$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes:
> On 2012-07-31 19:20:41 +0000, Bob Koehler said:
>
>> That is 8 bit bytes on a serial line doesn't guarantee the hardware
>> knows what to do with bytes above 255.
>
> The eight-bit setting doesn't guarantee which characters the (usually
> terminal) device will present to the end-user when an application
> transmits bytes in the eight-bit 128 to 255 range, either.
Ooops. What I sould have said. PDP-10 are the only systems I've
worked woith having 9 bit and larger bytes.
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