Murray Lesser wrote in a message to Leonard Erickson:

 ML> My first "ASCII" computer was a fully-populated CP/M machine 
 ML> (64K RAM), vintage 1979.

Wow.  In those days that was a lot of ram!  

 ML> All my previous programming experience was on either 6-bit or 
 ML> 8-bit machines, none of which used any version of ASCII.

What used six bits?

 ML> AFAIAC, the convenience of one-bit differentiation between 
 ML> upper- and lower-case characters doesn't make up for the 
 ML> inconvenience of dealing with the stupid ASCII collating 
 ML> sequence (that interspersed the special characters within the 
 ML> alphabetic characters.) 

If you were going to specify a collating sequence,  how would _you_ do it?

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