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Article #244Re: funny letters in funny sequences
From: Col. G. L. Sicherman
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1986 19:05
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1986 19:05
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> (Almost: W isn't really part
> of it and oA is placed two steps wrong.) What would you think of a collating
> sequence like:
> A B C $ / # D E F ) = # and so forth.
That's EBCDIC, of course. There are two pound-signs because the committee
wanted to preserve the APL correspondence with ASCII, but weren't sure that
ANSI would use a PL/I character for the missing position on the 360 console
typewriter, and the Hollerith code for = (# in the Commercial character set)
would have conflicted with the proposed 5-bit Baudot escapes, not to mention
Russian morse code. A sensible approach, don't you think? |-P
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