[Info-vax] 8-bit characters

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-11-11, Robert A. Brooks <FIRST.LAST at vmssoftware.com> wrote:
> On 11/11/2021 4:01 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 11/11/2021 3:57 PM, Michael Moroney wrote:
>
>>> You remember correctly. The hardwired '24 line terminal' assumption pissed me 
>>> off and a few times I looked at it I said no way I can fix that spaghetti 
>>> code. But one day the planets were aligned or something, and I just did it.
>> 
>> Macro-32 ?
>
> BLISS-32
>

Same difference. :-)

On a more serious note, BLISS-32 was a nice idea, but it's at way too
low a level to make a real difference.

Now, if we had a Pascal-like or Ada-like language that could be used
as a system implementation language... :-)

Simon.

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