[Info-vax] C limitations, was: Re: VMS process communication

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2023-04-12 kl. 18:26, skrev bill:

> But that is only during communications.  I am not aware of any program
> that computed the value of a character in transit and cared what that
> value was.  Pr1me set the values in their firmware forcing all programs
> in any language to deal with an ASCII set that had values from 128 to
> 255.


Now, if the highest bit really was a parity bit, you would end up with
values in the whole range 0-255, depending on the number of 1's in the
lower 7 bits.

But maybe that wasn't a real parity bit...