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From: tihor@acf4.UUCP (Stephen Tihor)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: The 360 was a design landmark  (360 vs vax)
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Date: Thu, 27-Aug-87 16:45:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 27 16:45:00 1987
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The major problem with EBCDIC is that there is (1) no single definition
of what all the codes are, (2) as a result no standardizable mapping
between EBCDIC and 8bit ASCII.  The other :problems: just reflect punch 
cards versus bit flippers.