MSGID: 2:230/0 5f7a4197   
   TZUTC: 0000   
   REPLY: 2:280/464.113 5f77c8cb   
   CHRS: LATIN-1 2   
   TID: hpt/lnx 1.9.0-cur 17-02-17   
   Hello Maurice!   
      
   03 Oct 2020 00:41, Maurice Kinal wrote to Benny Pedersen:   
      
    BP>> we today are limited to 7 bit with multiple problems to solve   
    MK> Speak for yourself.   
      
   if 8 bit was supported we would not need uuencode or even base64   
      
    MK>  This was never an issue that I was ever aware of.    
      
   maybe i am just older amiga user ?   
      
    MK>  What was an issue way back when, is silly fidonet sysops who got    
    MK> suckered into thinking that CP437 is higher/upper ascii.   
      
   it could be classified as fake news, if we ask Donald Trump :)   
      
    MK>  There never    
    MK> was any 8 bit characters in ascii and I doubt there ever will be.   
      
   100% agree   
      
   unicode is just shit like all the other encoding standards, if we would have   
   progressed well it would have being using html in more places, do you know svg   
   image format ?, totaly 7 bit file for binarie content, and nearly all browsers   
   in 2020 support it   
      
    BP>> oh never mind got a new kernel....   
    MK> kv-5.8.13 has serious usb issues.   
      
   fair, but i have no usage for usb on linode.com :)   
      
    MK> As of today my "stable" boot is    
    MK> using kv-5.4.69.   
      
   okay   
      
    MK>  No penguins with intel graphics but everything else    
    MK> seems to be working including i915drmfb.   
      
   maybe just tweek on kernel boot options could solve it if kernel default   
   options is not good ?   
      
      
    Regards Benny   
      
   ... there can only be one way of life, and it works :)   
      
   --- Msged/LNX 6.1.2 (Linux/5.8.13-gentoo-x86_64 (x86_64))   
    * Origin: I will always keep a PC running CPM 3.0 (2:230/0)   
   SEEN-BY: 1/123 90/1 103/705 120/340 123/131 154/10 201/0 203/0 124   
   SEEN-BY: 203/412 221/0 1 226/30 227/114 702 229/101 424 426 452 550   
   SEEN-BY: 229/616 664 1016 230/0 150 240/77 5138 5411 5832 5853 249/206   
   SEEN-BY: 249/317 400 280/464 5003 288/100 292/854 8125 310/31 317/3   
   SEEN-BY: 320/219 322/757 342/200 396/45 423/120 633/280 712/848 770/1   
   SEEN-BY: 2432/390 2452/250 2454/119 5020/545   
   PATH: 230/0 203/0 280/464 240/5832 229/426