It does appear that an opportunity was missed at a time when it would have been relatively easy to make the switch.
Regards, Richard Schuh > -----Original Message----- > From: CMSTSO Pipelines Discussion List > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin > Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2010 9:46 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Detecting EBCDIC codepage? > > 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 >
