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From: barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: Does C depend on ASCII? - (nf)
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Date: Sun, 6-May-84 23:20:48 EDT
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Posted: Sun May  6 23:20:48 1984
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Well, I don't know how dependent Unix really is on ASCII, but the folks
at Amdahl probably thought it was dependent enough that they use ASCII,
even though the underlying IBM-370 architecture is geared towards
EBCDIC.
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			Barry Margolin
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