In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 08/05/2006
at 05:26 PM, "Robert A. Rosenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Originally the 360 Series COULD handle ASCII
So could the S/370/S/390 and ZSeries.
>There was a bit in the PSW that flipped it from an EBCDIC to an
>ASCII machine.
The Devil is in the details. That bit affected *only* decimal
arithmentic.
--
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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