[Info-vax] AlphaVM-free emulator with all additional peripheral components

[Paul Sture]

On Wed, 01 Aug 2012 13:34:42 -0500, Bob Koehler wrote:

> In article <jvbei8$5qe$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman
> <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes:
>> 
>> As was mentioned earlier, there's simply no way to determine the
>> character encoding of an arbitrary string.
> 
>    Which is why I once thought of "encrypting" character data by a
>    simple cipher:  store it in EBCDIC.

Chuckle.  Another thing COBOL can do easily.  ALPHABET IS EBCDIC was my 
friend there.

A seasoned IBMer could probably spot EBCDIC a mile off though.

-- 
Paul Sture