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From: andrew@orca.UUCP (Andrew Klossner)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: Does C depend on ASCII?
Message-ID: <827@orca.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 10-May-84 15:34:54 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 10 15:34:54 1984
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	"I don't agree that the IBM machine is really geared toward
	EBCDIC."

A program running on an 370-architecture machine can convert a binary
number to an EBCDIC string in two instructions.  There is no
corresponding conversion to ASCII, though there was an "ASCII mode" bit
in the Program Status Word on the 360 line, dropped in the 370 line.

  -- Andrew Klossner   (decvax!tektronix!orca!andrew)      [UUCP]
                       (orca!andrew.tektronix@rand-relay)  [ARPA]