Markus G. Kuhn <kuhn@cs.purdue.edu> asks about a reference to the
development of EBCDIC. Probably the best one is this book:
@String{pub-AW = "Ad{\-d}i{\-s}on-Wes{\-l}ey"}
@String{pub-AW:adr = "Reading, MA, USA"}
@Book{Mackenzie:CCS80,
author = "Charles E. Mackenzie",
title = "Coded Character Sets: History and Development",
publisher = pub-AW,
address = pub-AW:adr,
pages = "xxi + 513",
year = "1980",
ISBN = "0-201-14460-3",
LCCN = "QA268 .M27 1980",
price = "US\$24.95",
series = "The Systems Programming Series",
bibdate = "Wed Dec 15 10:38:43 1993",
}
There is also interesting historical material on early computer
character sets in this new book:
@Book{Blaauw:1997:CAC,
author = "Gerrit A. Blaauw and Frederick P. {Brooks, Jr.}",
title = "Computer architecture: concepts and evolution",
publisher = pub-AW,
address = pub-AW:adr,
year = "1997",
ISBN = "0-201-10557-8",
LCCN = "QA76.9.A73 B57 1997",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
pages = "xlviii + 1213",
bibdate = "Tue Jul 08 13:48:35 1997",
}
The book's authors, together with Gene Amdahl, are the chief
architects of the IBM System/360, and the book covers architectures
from Babbage's work in the last century, up to about 1990, including
detailed treatment of instruction sets of many different machines.
There is considerable discussion of the mistakes that were made, and
of features that influenced later computers (and character sets).
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