"MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 09/27/2016
04:49:44 PM:
On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 4:31 PM, <dlclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yes, it seems to be synonymous in the ASC-II world -- but not
in
EBCDIC. I thought I would clarify it before someone called me out.
hehehe
EBCDIC x'25' is linefeed while EBCDIC x'15' is newline.

Right, I forgot about that. Now I feel slightly "encodingist" (like
racist). I guess you can figure out which side of the tracks I grew up
on.

But speaking of respecting various encodings, why do you spell ASCII
with a hyphen? You've done it repeatedly now, so it's not a typo for
you.

I suppose it is one of my quirks. I think of them as ASC-I
(7-bit) and ASC-II (8-bit) as if they were Roman numeral "version 1" and
"version 2" but I just looked it up in Wikipedia and I see that isn't so.
I was in the ASCII world first (1972 and reels of paper tape programs) and
then got into the EBCDIC world (1980). I will try to drop the habit. ;-)

Sincerely,

Dave Clark

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