From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: charles.unix.pro@gmail.com (Charles Anthony) Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2016 18:50:36 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] Command-line options In-Reply-To: References: <201603251443.u2PEh8OZ019856@skeeve.com> <20160325212925.GA5761@minnie.tuhs.org> <20160325232516.GG3766@eureka.lemis.com> <20160326021018.GG897@mercury.ccil.org> <4B49E73B-51BD-4834-AA8C-5F9F74BA784E@ronnatalie.com> Message-ID: On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 6:25 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote: > On Sat, 26 Mar 2016, Ronald Natalie wrote: > > > The other fun character set was the old UNIVAC Fielddata. There were no > > non printing characters and in fact not even a null value (the 0 value > > was called master space and printed as @). > > What was the character set used by CDC? 60-bit words, of 10 6-bit > "characters", > as I recall... I thought it was Fielddata, but you're saying that that's > Univac's. > > I seem to recall both 6 bit and a larger field that handled upper/lower case; I have no recollection of the names of the encoding. I do distinctly remember that for the six bit set, 0 was used for both ':' and end-of-string; trailing colons on a line would disappear. -- Charles > > -- > Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will > suffer." > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: