In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 01/15/2006
at 10:40 PM, Phil Payne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I think we're looking at the results of a relatively short-term
>project. This might make a great deal of sense if we postulate
>zArchitecture on the iSeries. Crucially, both iSeries and zSeries
>are EBCDIC.
No; neither is tied to a specific character set. You're confusing
iSeries with OS/300 and zSeries with, e.g., z/OS. Even z/OS isn't tied
as tightly to EBCDIC as earlier releases were.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
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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