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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2012-08-01, Paul Sture <paul at sture.ch> wrote:
> 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.
>

Which EBCDIC variant would that be ? :-)

(Fortunately, EBCDIC is now a long distant memory for me. :-))

Simon.

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