On Mar 7, 2010, at 09:52, Schuh, Richard wrote: > If EBCDIC had become the prevalent code, you probably would hate ASCII. And > to be fair, BCD did predate ASCII. What you really hate is the fact that IBM > did not embrace ASCII a long time ago. > OK, but I'd still hate the broken alphabet (_so_ 19th Century) and the hex-unfriendly collating sequence.
(They came sooo close!):
Linkname: IBM - EBCDIC and the P-bit
URL: http://www.bobbemer.com/P-BIT.HTM
-- gil
