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From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Computers for users not programmers
Message-ID: <27BC3F6B.69BF@tct.uucp>
Date: 15 Feb 91 20:07:07 GMT
References: <3198@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <14653@lanl.gov>
Organization: Teltronics/TCT, Sarasota, FL
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According to jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles):
>For all the operations except the character 'move' operation, you must
>assume that the character set is 7-bit ASCII ...

Is that a reasonable assumption nowadays?  I'd not consider a text
manipulation program "working" if it gave incorrect results on
eight-bit characters.

Ob. Arch: Byte manipulation is expensive when shortcuts are
disallowed.
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Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT     <chip@tct.uucp>, <uunet!pdn!tct!chip>
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