ASCII-8 would have been just as bad; IBM would still have wound up with a jungle of incompatible code pages. Alas, Unicode and UTF-8 were not around yet.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2018 2:38 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: So much for THAT excuse | Computerworld SHARK TANK On Mon, 19 Nov 2018 13:13:25 -0500, Phil Smith III wrote: > >Case sensitivity and null-terminated strings: two historical Unix mistakes >that have cost untold billions. > And EBCDIC tops them both. Just count the problems discussed on these lists. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
