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

[Scott Dorsey]

John Dallman <jgd at cix.co.uk> wrote:
>In article <u18rqh$eb71$1 at dont-email.me>,
>clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP (Simon Clubley) wrote:
>
>> I wonder how the EDCDIC people handle this and your other examples 
>> ? :-)
>> 
>> (A-Z is not a contiguous unbroken sequence in EBCDIC.)
>
>Linux on IBM Z is an ASCII OS, with no attempt to use EBCDIC. 

IBM made a few attempts to use ASCII on those machines, with one model 
(I want to say the 360/44) having a bunch of ASCII support instructions.
Never seemed to come to much.  A number of manufacturers made 
sort-of-compatible machines (like the RCA Spectra/70) that used the /360
instruction set but with ASCII so you couldn't really run /360 code on
them.

So I am pleased that IBM has made another attempt at ASCII on that 
architecture.
--scott
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>John 


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