I remember thinking trigraphs were a cheap hack when they were first introduced. Now that I’m old I get called on to help “modernize” legacy code. Keyboard images courtesy of Admiral Shark’s Keyboards. Too much of the information posted on-line about Trigraphs and Digraphs is incomplete or just plain wrong. Those who have only ever worked on x86 hobby computer systems blame the 7-bit ASCII-ish ISO 646 character set not having some of the critical … Trigraphs and DigraphsRead more
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Some Mainframe Nostalgia
I only dabbled on the IBM mainframe over my 30+ year career. One thing that gives me great nostalgia now is SPF. SPFLite2 in particular. I don’t actually remember what we had on ROSCOE when I made the mistake of attending DeVry in Lombard. It kind of reminded me of the editor I had to use later at client sites. You see, I was either a PC consultant or a DEC/VAX consultant. Prior to the … Some Mainframe NostalgiaRead more