From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 14 May 2001 14:05:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 14 May 2001 14:05:25 -0400 Received: from neon-gw.transmeta.com ([209.10.217.66]:20238 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 14 May 2001 14:05:13 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: Not a typewriter Date: 14 May 2001 11:04:42 -0700 Organization: Transmeta Corporation, Santa Clara CA Message-ID: <9dp6nq$fvc$1@cesium.transmeta.com> In-Reply-To: <200105141729.MAA28295@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Disclaimer: Not speaking for Transmeta in any way, shape, or form. Copyright: Copyright 2001 H. Peter Anvin - All Rights Reserved Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Followup to: <200105141729.MAA28295@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil> By author: Jesse Pollard In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > well... actually it was 6 bit "ascii" computed from: (char - ' '). Depends > entirely on architecture, and implementation. EBCD/6Bit/7Bit and EBCDIC were > supported on the Honeywell systems. > There was also a genuine ASCII-6 encoding. It didn't look much like ASCII-7 as far as I remember. -hpa -- at work, in private! "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot." http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/puzzle.txt