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

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2012-08-02 18:41, Paul Sture wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
>>> "... 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."

You mean something like MOVTC from a well known architecture that plays 
an important role in the history of VMS? :-)

	Johnny