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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Was the 360 badly-designed?  (was Re: Compatibility with EBCDIC)
Message-ID: <6333@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 24-Aug-87 14:35:18 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 24 14:35:18 1987
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Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
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In article <26312@sun.uucp> guy%gorodish@Sun.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
>"Nonstandard character set": considering ASCII was relatively new at the time
>(I'm not even sure to what degree ASCII *existed* in 1963!), this is simply
>bogus.

The really annoying thing is that IBM was on the committee that came
up with the ASCII code, but they then proceeded to introduce EBCDIC
and totally ignore ASCII for many years.  (Sounds like the Algol story,
doesn't it?)