Re: VMs: Where do they get the "Letters" from?

[Jacques Guy <jguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

10/01/03 22:33:10, "Larry Roux" <LRoux@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>   Where do they get the "Letters" from?
>   Where do the standard "Letter" translations for vms come from?
>
>   For instance, how did someone arrive at the gallows being a "t" and the 9
>   being a y, etc.

It's all in the archives.

t, y, etc. are EVA. EVA is "pronunceable Frogguy", "Frogguy" is another
transliteration system, which manages to _look_ like the VMS letters.
For instance, EVA daiin is Frogguy 8aiiv, EVA eedy is Frogguy cc89.
There is almost a one-to-one correspondance, except for the gallows.
A gallows is represented in EVA by a single letter; in Frogguy it is
represented by _two_ letters. The first is the left half of the 
gallows, the second the right half. So that, for instance, qp is
_one_ gallows, likewise lp, lj, and qj (guess which).

So, before EVA was invented, the sign that looks like 9 was transliterated
as 9, the "t" gallows as qp, etc.


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