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- From: chrisg@coop.com (Chris Garrigues)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.internat,news.admin.misc
- Subject: Re: 8-bit news
- Keywords: ISO8859 ISO10646 8bit
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.170407.11754@coop.com>
- Date: 16 Dec 92 17:04:07 GMT
- References: <Bz9Bw3.2I6@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <89RsVB3w165w@blues.kk.sub.org> <BzBJIA.3AM@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
- Organization: Cooperative Computing, Inc.
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- In article <BzBJIA.3AM@ra.nrl.navy.mil> atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil (Randall Atkinson) writes:
- > The systems are mostly orphans. In some cases, the vendor doesn't
- >even exist anymore. The software effectively cannot be changed. Such
- >systems are a large part of the reason that the DDN has had an awful
- >time trying to convert to the Domain Name System. Heck some of the
- >older systems from still existing vendors used 6-bit characters rather
- >than 7-bit ASCII. Ever programmed on a Cyber ? Mayhaps not. However
- >many such systems won't go away or be replaced soon for financial and
- >other reasons.
-
- Is it or is it not a fair assumption that such systems will be leaf
- nodes? I think it's a useful distinction to consider this question
- because it isn't really important for these purposes if leaf nodes
- aren't up to snuff as long as nodes that the data may be routed
- through between two State Of The Art (tm) are capable of transferring
- the data cleanly.
-
- (BTW, I have programmed on a Cyber. I ^L^O^V^E 6/12 ^S^P^L^I^T-ASCII.
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