Meaning of EBCDIC | Babel Free

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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.

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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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