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

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

Bob Koehler <koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org> wrote:
> 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 believe the TN print train has them, though I don't remember
using them. (The more common print trains don't.)

In any case, there have been EBCDIC versions of C for some time now.
(C has substitutes for some characters, too.)

Also, reminds me of comments in the PL/I (F) library related to
the character set used. Many routines are specifically character
set independent. Others have comments indicating that if converted
to a different character set (or, at least, character constants
are converted) then they will work in that character set.

The Tachyon assemblers allow source input in either ASCII
or EBCDIC, but assemble constants in EBCDIC in either case.
(Maybe there is an option to assemble constants in ASCII.)

--glen