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From: eager@amd70.UUCP (Mike Eager)
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Subject: Re: Does C depend on ASCII?
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Date: Mon, 21-May-84 19:55:18 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 21 19:55:18 1984
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About attaching ASCII terminals to IBM S/370 systems:  Most use an IBM 3704
or 3705.  This is a terminal concentrator & frontend.  It does many wonderful
and magical things.  Given the channel structure of the 370, I doubt that
anyone has a direct connect.  The 3705, by the way, is a IBM 360/50, in 
disguise, unless I've been lied to.

Considering the LARGE number of ASCII constants embedded in C programs, I would
be surprised if the UTS system used EBCDIC internally.  I imagine that there 
would be code dependencies in many programs.