"Hohberger, Clive" <CHohberger at zebra dot com> wrote: > IBM used 6-bit EBCDIC.
There's no such thing. Maybe "6-bit BCDIC" was meant. > IBM changed the game with the System/360. IBM introduced 8-bit ASCII in the > mid 60's, it having been developed by ANSI x3.2, first published in 1963. It > was a superset of 5-bit Baudot and 7-bit ISO 646.See > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII Part of the reason was to equally support > accented Latin characters used in European languages. Today it is known as > ISO 8859/1. "ASCII" is and always has been a 7-bit standard, which could always be transported along 8-bit lines. Extensions to ASCII to support additional characters are no longer "ASCII." There were several such extensions before DEC MCS came along as the predecessor to ISO 8859-1. I don't think this was an IBM innovation, and certainly not in the mid '60s. System/360 was, in fact, a primarily EBCDIC platform. -- Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA | RFC 5645, 4645, UTN #14 www.ewellic.org | www.facebook.com/doug.ewell | @DougEwell
