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From: msf@amelia (Michael S. Fischbein)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: The 360 was a design landmark  (360 vs vax)
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Date: Wed, 31-Dec-69 18:59:59 EDT
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Posted: Wed Dec 31 18:59:59 1969
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Summary: back to EBCDIC vs ASCII

In article <26623@sun.uucp> petolino@sun.UUCP (Joe Petolino) writes:
>One final word about the ASCII vs EBCDIC debate.  You can enter ANY of the
>128 ASCII codes from a standard ASCII keyboard.  I don't know of any
>EBCDIC keyboard that can make a similar claim.

Whoa!  There are 128 7-bit numbers, and 256 8-bit numbers.  If you have a
keyboard that generates 128 different 7-bit codes, adding one key (usually
called `Meta') will generate all 256 8-bit codes.  That has to be all of
EBCDIC; there just isn't any more.  Not all terminals have Meta keys; but
ask anyone who uses EMACS if there aren't work-arounds if you don't.

		mike
Michael Fischbein                 msf@prandtl.nas.nasa.gov
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