Sujet : Re: The joy of FORTRAN
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : alt.folklore.computers comp.os.linux.miscDate : 01. Mar 2025, 03:46:04
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On Fri, 28 Feb 2025 13:08:14 -1000, Lynn Wheeler wrote:
trivia: 360s were originally going to be ASCII ... but the ASCII unit
record gear wasn't ready ...
Both System/360 and the first official ASCII spec came out in 1964, so you
could understand why it would have been too much of a rush to get ASCII
support working in time for the product launch.