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From: rogerk@mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Re: curses 8 bits
Message-ID: <32367@servitude.mips.COM>
Date: 29 Nov 89 16:14:31 GMT
References: <1989Nov14.181722.8266@sobmips.UUCP> <32364@servitude.mips.COM> <1989Nov29.151738.24726@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: rogerk@mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese)
Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <1989Nov29.151738.24726@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald) writes:
>>The RISC/os release 4.0 curses library, based on the SVR3.0 version, is
>>*not* 8-bit-clean.  The version included in the about-to-enter-alpha-test
>>release 4.50 is derived from SVR3.2, and allows full 6-bit character
>                                                      ^
>>support.  This will be released during the first quarter of 1990.
>
>Should we sell our MIPS and replace it with a 1960's CDC mainframe?
>
>I have always wondered why ANY system would go to all the trouble
>of throwing away half of the possible characters in a byte.
>Seems stupid.

It's an *8*... yeesh!  One little typo...

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ROGER B.A. KLORESE      MIPS Computer Systems, Inc.      phone: +1 408 720-2939
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