In
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
on 06/17/2005
at 08:37 AM, "Farley, Peter x23353" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Having worked at a company that had an Arabic contract a long tome
>ago in a galaxy far, far away, I can tell you that Arabic numbers are
>not "foreign" -- they have always read and printed their numbers
>left-to-right. Remember, they invented the concept of "zero".
They got it from India.
>I don't know Hebrew, but I would suppose it might have similar
>characteristics.
In Hebrew some letters have two (normal and final) forms, but none
have three. Hebrew does not have the issue of ligatures, either. The
bidi issues[1] are the same, and nontrivial.
>Oh, and MVCIN first came with the 4300 processors, not 370.
No, it first came in as an RPQ on S/360 processors. It was also on RPQ
on S/370 processors well before the 4341. What was new with the 4341
is that MVCIN was documented as more than an RPQ, in the ECPS:VSE
Principles of Operation.
[1] Terminals are fairly trivial, but word processing is complex.
--
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ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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