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

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

Paul Sture <paul at sture.ch> wrote:

(snip regarding IBM, EBCDIC, and ASCII, then I wrote)

>> 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."

Well, TR goes back to S/360. 

Printers would usually expect EBCDIC. Consoles terminals often
(tracing back to S/360 days) often have a different code.

If you run as a VM guest, then VM would normally support
EBCDIC for spooled I/O. Disks, of course, are written however
the program writes them. 

Does remind me of trying to get a S/370 disassembler, written
in C, to run under unix/ASCII. All the symbols from the object
program come out in EBCDIC and need to be converted.

-- glen