Sujet : Re: The joy of FORTRAN
De : news (at) *nospam* alderson.users.panix.com (Rich Alderson)
Groupes : alt.folklore.computers comp.os.linux.miscDate : 02. Mar 2025, 00:41:28
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <
ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
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.
And there was an additional turd in the kettle: IBM were plumping for an 8 bit
extension to ASCII (which was a 7 bit character set) in which bit 5 and bit 7
either echoed or inverted each other, instead of bit 7 being always 0 for the
defined ASCII characters, and 1 for the other 128 characters to be defined.
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