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From: madd@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Jim Frost)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: AT&T Joining OSF
Message-ID: <24566@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: 25 Aug 88 23:52:33 GMT
References: <347@spies.UUCP> <670025@hpclscu.HP.COM> <24355@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <1991@stpstn.UUCP> <381@infmx.UUCP>
Reply-To: madd@bu-it.bu.edu (Jim Frost)
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In article <381@infmx.UUCP> aland@infmx.UUCP (Dr. Scump) writes:
|And *what* is the big problem with EBCDIC, except that "it's not ASCII"?

How about the "n" different versions of EBCDIC?  It's an IBM standard
and yet it's different on the three different types of IBM hardware I
use (IBM System/32, System/23 Datamaster, and System/34, 36, and 38).
ASCII is ASCII anywhere....

jim frost
madd@bu-it.bu.edu