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On Thu, 27 Feb 2025 21:11:54 +0000, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Feb 2025 23:43:18 -0000 (UTC)
> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 26 Feb 2025 15:17:54 -0700, Peter Flass wrote:
>> 
>> > Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Tue, 25 Feb 2025 17:48:55 -1000, Lynn Wheeler wrote:
>> >> 
>> >>> RISC ROMP was going to be for the DISPLAYWRITER follow-on running
>> >>> CP.r and PL.8 ... but it got canceled (lot of that market was
>> >>> moving to PCs).
>> >> 
>> >> And DisplayWriter hardware was replaced with DisplayWrite software.
>> >> Which was the world’s most popular word processor through much of
>> >> the 1980s ...
>> >> even though most normal PC users had never heard of it.
>> >> 
>> > The PC version couldn’t hold a candle to the dedicated systems.
>> 
>> It was extremely popular in IBM shops.
> 
> EBCDIC text (+control codes) saved on a PC floppy!

Which codepage? They shall remain nameless but at one point I had to write 
an interface to a state criminal justice network that used EBCDIC. I think 
their last card punch must have broken since they went to ASCII XML 
recently, or I suppose I should say the ISO/IEC 8859-1 subset of Unicode.