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From: hase@netmbx.UUCP (Hartmut Semken)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: ST->IBM PC, Floppies OK w/TOS 1.4
Keywords: TOS 1.4, IBM PC Floopy format
Message-ID: <3579@netmbx.UUCP>
Date: 8 Oct 89 07:53:38 GMT
References: <18093@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: hase@netmbx.UUCP (Hartmut Semken)
Organization: netmbx Public Access Unix, Berlin, West Germany
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In article <18093@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> soohoo@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Ken "nmi" Soohoo) writes:
>Just curious, since I'm transferring Atari ASCII files to an IBM,
>and they come out just fine, how much of EBCIDIC (sp?) maps to
>ASCII (I assume a PC uses EDCIDIC, no?)

No.
Even Mama Blue is (sometimes) willing to adopt to standards, even when
trying to set them. First, they used ASCII for the PC, now the gor for
UN*X (AX for PS/2, RIOS and VM370 will come "real soon now"! They are
still tying to make the 286 act like a microprocessor...)

The Pissi uses some sort of extended ASCII. The ST extends this table
further.


hase
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