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

[Paul Sture]

On Thu, 02 Aug 2012 16:29:25 +0000, glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:

> Paul Sture <paul at sture.ch> wrote:
> 
> 
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBCDIC#History
> 
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>> "... but AIX running on the iSeries, Linux running on the zSeries, and
>> the IBM PC and its descendants use ASCII."
> 
> Must be some interesting conversion somewhere along the way for
> Linux/390, but yes.

According to that Wiki article:

"Software and many hardware peripherals can translate to and from 
encodings, and modern mainframes (such as IBM zSeries) include processor 
instructions, at the hardware level, to accelerate translation between 
character sets."

-- 
Paul Sture