On 26/05/16 02:28, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
On Wed, 25 May 2016 22:03:34 +0100, Erik <pyt...@lucidity.plus.com>
declaimed the following:
Indeed - at that time, I was working with COBOL on an IBM S/370. On that
system, we used EBCDIC ASCII. That was the wierdest ASCII of all <ducks> ;)
It would have to be... Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code,
as I recall, predates American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
EBCDIC's 8-bit code is actually more closely linked to Hollerith card
encodings.
I really didn't think it would be necessary to point this out (I thought
the "<ducks>" and emoji would be enough), but for the record, my
previous message was clearly a joke.
To break it down, Stephen was making the observation that people call
all sorts of extended ASCII encodings (including proprietary things)
"ASCII". So I took it to the extreme and called something that had
nothing to do with ASCII a type of ASCII.
As they say, if one has to explain one's jokes then they are probably
not funny ...
<sigh> :(
E.
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