From: dxforth@gmail.com   
      
   On 17/04/2025 9:31 am, David Meyer wrote:   
   > 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?   
      
   This got me interested.  In FigForth for CP/M-80 bit 7 is *not* cleared.   
   Thus the full 8 bits is sent to the BIOS console output with the expectation   
   bit 7 will is cleared in the BIOS.  DRI's spec for BIOS CONOUT appears to   
   require this.  OTOH I know BIOS's that didn't do that as it would restrict   
   console capability.   
      
   Ideally FigForth should allow 8-bit EMITs and ID. rewritten to use a   
   127 AND EMIT loop instead of TYPE .   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)