Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!uwvax!rutgers!sri-spam!ames!lll-lcc!pyramid!voder!apple!bcase From: bcase@apple.UUCP (Brian Case) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.arch Subject: Re: Was the 360 badly-designed? (was Re: Compatibility with EBCDIC) Message-ID: <1590@apple.UUCP> Date: Sun, 23-Aug-87 18:38:54 EDT Article-I.D.: apple.1590 Posted: Sun Aug 23 18:38:54 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Aug-87 01:22:19 EDT References: <855@tjalk.cs.vu.nl> <2683@hoptoad.uucp> <916@haddock.ISC.COM> <1589@apple.UUCP> Organization: Apple Computer, Inc., Cupertino, USA Lines: 9 Summary: OOOPS! Xref: mnetor comp.lang.c:3863 comp.arch:1892 In article <1589@apple.UUCP>, bcase@apple.UUCP (Brian Case) writes: > >No stack, small segments, nonstandard character set with holes. > > Wait, is the character set part of the architecture!?!? I didn't think so, But, I was wrong: I forgot about the character instructions (edit, etc.). These make assumptions about the character set, don't they? bcase