Bliss was Re: DEC program listing

[Huw Davies]

On 16/08/2005, at 11:36 PM, Paul Koning wrote:

>>>>>> "Tim" == Tim Shoppa <shoppa_classiccmp at trailing-edge.com> writes:
>>>>>>
>
>  Tim> Several of the Model 33 TTY's I've gone through over the years
>  Tim> had the "Early" ASCII character assignments (and had a slashed
>  Tim> letter O and an unslashed number 0).
>
> That doesn't sound like "early ASCII" -- it sounds like the IBM "do
> everything differently" convention.

I thought it was CDC who had the slashed Ohs or perhaps it was  
Burroughs. In the three universities in Melbourne in the early 70s we  
had a DECsystem-10 (La Trobe), Burroughs 7800 (Monash) and a CDC-6000  
(Melbourne) and I remember thinking that we'd got the best deal with  
the DECsystem-10 although I later learnt that the other two systems  
were cool in their own distinct ways.

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