From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall) Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2016 12:25:05 +1100 (EST) Subject: [TUHS] Command-line options In-Reply-To: <4B49E73B-51BD-4834-AA8C-5F9F74BA784E@ronnatalie.com> 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, 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. -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."