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

[Michael Kraemer]

In article <dTd5Kk0lwIU2 at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
> In article <jvelpr$3ka$1 at speranza.aioe.org>, glen herrmannsfeldt
> <gah at ugcs.caltech.edu> writes:
> > 
> > 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.
> 
>    Written in C?  I thought EBCDIC didn't have {}, isn't that why
>    RATFOR allowed <> as substitutes?

I don't remember this is as being a real showstopper.
TeX would have had the same problem, yet a lot of colleagues
used it to prepare their theses on mainframes.
I only remember difficulties to enter [] on 3270 terminal keyboards,
one had to use the ISPF editor's hex mode to enter some hex byte
which would be recognized as square brackets. But you don't need [] much.

C/370 also allowed trigraphs to model those strange bracket types, iirc.