At 01:55 PM 5/30/99 -0700, Alain wrote:
> I believe that computers hsould
>adapt to people, not the reverse. But I am probably too much
old-fashioned.
I'd like to think that's why all of us are on this list. The tyranny of
ASCII is bad enough, but many years ago I actually did runoff word
processing on a CDC Cyber that used 6-bit characters, and needed a
combination of one- and two-byte codes *just to represent lower case*.
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