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From: barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: Does C depend on ASCII?
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Date: Thu, 10-May-84 00:10:36 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 10 00:10:36 1984
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I don't
agree that the IBM machine is really geared toward EBCDIC.
What is EBCDIC are the line printers, the card punches
and readers, and terminals, or, in other words, the
peripherals.
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OK, so it is not the machine, but VM, under which UTS runs, certainly
must depend on it.  So, any text passed to system calls has to be
translated to EBCDIC.
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			Barry Margolin
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