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But i is still quite removed from the micro standards: POWER, EBCDIC, COBOL, RPG, 5250 terminals, and the SLIC/TIMI/LPAR abstractions.
The typical "micro" app would use x86, UTF-8, Java/C++/Rust/Go on top of a general public system like Linux.
Well at least both use 8 bits words, it hasn't always been the case.
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But i is still quite removed from the micro standards: POWER, EBCDIC, COBOL, RPG, 5250 terminals, and the SLIC/TIMI/LPAR abstractions.
The typical "micro" app would use x86, UTF-8, Java/C++/Rust/Go on top of a general public system like Linux.
Well at least both use 8 bits words, it hasn't always been the case.