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From: David Meyer <papa@sdf.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Word name storage quirk in VAX fig-Forth
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2025 08:31:30 +0900
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It occurred to me that another factor in this is that the VAX-11 OS used
7-bit ASCII as its character set, so perhaps terminals and printers of
that time would just print the character indicated by the lower 7 bits
of each byte they were sent, ignoring the high bit. So I am seeing
munged characters because I'm using equipment that looks at all 8 bits
for character codes?
-- 
David Meyer
Takarazuka, Japan
papa@sdf.org