Ebcdic

//ˈɛbsəˌdɪk// name

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  1. 1
    Acronym of Extended Binary-Coded-Decimal Interchange Code, an 8-bit character set and encoding representing 256 alphanumeric and special characters, devised by and used primarily by IBM. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of

    "Thus, to translate an EBCDIC message into an ASCII one we need a table with 256 one-byte entries. In each position we put the ASCII code that corresponds to that EBCDIC entry."

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"Thus, to translate an EBCDIC message into an ASCII one we need a table with 256 one-byte entries. In each position we put the ASCII code that corresponds to that EBCDIC entry."

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