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From: ken@argus.UUCP (Kenneth Ng)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.arch
Subject: Re: Was the 360 badly-designed?  (was Re: Compatibility with EBCDIC)
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Date: Thu, 27-Aug-87 13:33:41 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 27 13:33:41 1987
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In article <1590@apple.UUCP>, bcase@apple.UUCP (Brian Case) writes:
> 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


That's why there is a bit in the PSW (on the 360 at least) that indicates
whether the machine is using ASCII or EBCDIC.


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