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As far as I can remember, most mail servers were fairly sane about that sort of thing, even back in the 90’s when this stuff was introduced. However, there were
by Pinus 8mo ago
As far as I can remember, most mail servers were fairly sane about that sort of thing, even back in the 90’s when this stuff was introduced. However, there were always these more or less motivated fears about some server somewhere running on some ancient IBM hardware using EBCDIC encoding and truncating everything to 72 characters because its model of the world was based on punched cards. So standards were written to handle all those bizarre systems. And I am sure that there is someone on HN who actually used one of those servers...
- tiborsaas 8mo agoThanks, I really expected a tale from the 70's, but did not see punch cards coming :)
- jibal 8mo agoThe influence of 80 column punch cards remains pervasive.
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- NetMageSCW 8mo agoIBM has a lot to make up for.
- jcynix 8mo agoEBCDIC wasn't the problem, this was (part of) the problem: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.1.0?topic=execution-systsin-dd-statement https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.1.0?topic=execution-systsi... And BITNET …
- kstrauser 8mo ago> EBCDIC wasn't the problem Wake up, everyone! Brand new sentence just dropped!