On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 11:20:29PM -0500, Alan Ackerman wrote: > > Probably not. The ASCII-bit didn't do what you might think. > > All the ASCII-bit did was changed the zone created in zoned-decimal and > packed-deciimal by the > decimal instruction set. The result was NOT ASCII, but what IBM described as > USASCII-8 -- which > had one of the 7 ASCII bits duplicated to form an 8-bit character. The digits > 0-9 are ASCII hex > 30-39, USASCII-8 hex 50-59, and EBCDIC hex F0-F9. > > Not all that useful to Linux.
Learn something new (old?) every day. Thank you for that correction. It might be nice to have an ASCII mode added to the architecture that would do useful things for Linux. -- May the LORD God bless you exceedingly abundantly! Dave Craig - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "'So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe.'" --from _Nightfall_ by Asimov/Silverberg
