On 11/19/2018 2:39 PM, Pew, Curtis G wrote:
Right. The expectation was that routines would check the bit and generate
output in the appropriate codeset, and eventually everyone would be using
ASCII. Instead, everyone ignored the bit and generated EBCDIC, so the bit was
reused for something else (I can’t remember what either.)
Thanks! I was going to ask how a bit in the PSW could possibly affect
any kind of code translation.
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