Character Sets

[Eric Giguere]

In article <456 at cybaswan.UUCP> iiit-sh at cybaswan.UUCP (Steve Hosgood) writes:
>                                      Interesting though, I had never
>considered the possibility of non-contiguous numbers and alphabetics rearing
>its head now that EBCDIC is dead (slight :-)).

With all those IBM mainframes (you know, the ones that run VM/CMS, MVS, TSO,
etc. -- the operating systems that everyone in the papers is advertising
positions for all the time....) the demise of EBCDIC is still a looooooong
way off.  Remember that Whitesmiths is on the executive of the ANSI committee
and they market a C compiler for those same machines....

....and so do we in Waterloo C.  So programming one of those mainframes doesn't
have to be so bad since there's a real language available....

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