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From: giguere@aries5.uucp (Eric Giguere)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Character Sets
Keywords: EBCDIC isn't dead unfortunately...
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Date: 26 May 89 21:43:32 GMT
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In article <456@cybaswan.UUCP> iiit-sh@cybaswan.UUCP (Steve Hosgood) writes:
>                                      Interesting though, I had never
>considered the possibility of non-contiguous numbers and alphabetics rearing
>its head now that EBCDIC is dead (slight :-)).

With all those IBM mainframes (you know, the ones that run VM/CMS, MVS, TSO,
etc. -- the operating systems that everyone in the papers is advertising
positions for all the time....) the demise of EBCDIC is still a looooooong
way off.  Remember that Whitesmiths is on the executive of the ANSI committee
and they market a C compiler for those same machines....

....and so do we in Waterloo C.  So programming one of those mainframes doesn't
have to be so bad since there's a real language available....

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