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On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:07:44 -0500, Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
wrote:

>I think you are overstating the universality and length. I used a 
>machine in the 1970s with 60-bit words that could be interpreted as 10 
>6-bit characters. IBM used EBCDIC at least into the 1980s. The UCLA 

	The Xerox Sigma series also used EBCDIC (probably not a surprise --
I believe the precursor company, Scientific Data Systems, was founded by
ex-IBM folk). One nice thing about EBCDIC was that, in hex, the
characters could be mapped quite easily with Hollerith cards -- the
lower nybble mapped to the card 0-9 rows, and the high nybble correlated
to the top card rows.

	Of course, the Sigma was a weird machine all by itself, what with
over 200 discrete hardware interrupt vectors, four-bank interleaved
memory, etc.
-- 
	Wulfraed                 Dennis Lee Bieber         AF6VN
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