colonel@ellie.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) (02/24/86)
> (Almost: W isn't really part > of it and oA is placed two steps wrong.) What would you think of a collating > sequence like: > A B C $ / # D E F ) = # and so forth. That's EBCDIC, of course. There are two pound-signs because the committee wanted to preserve the APL correspondence with ASCII, but weren't sure that ANSI would use a PL/I character for the missing position on the 360 console typewriter, and the Hollerith code for = (# in the Commercial character set) would have conflicted with the proposed 5-bit Baudot escapes, not to mention Russian morse code. A sensible approach, don't you think? |-P -- Col. G. L. Sicherman UU: ...{rocksvax|decvax}!sunybcs!colonel CS: colonel@buffalo-cs BI: csdsicher@sunyabva