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EBCDIC
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English
Pronunciation
en /ˈɛbsəˌdɪk/ /ˈɛbsɪdɪk/ /ˈɛbkəˌdɪk/ less common US
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-EBCDIC.wav Southern England
Proper noun
en proper noun
en computing en 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.
en 1989 D. Russell The Principles of Computer Networking Cambridge University Press 9780521339926 218 https://books.google.com/books?id=ReDwVJGlxLsC&pg=PA218&dq=%22EBCDIC%22&hl=&cd=3&source=gbs_api#v=onepage&q=%22EBCDIC%22&f=false 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.
Derived terms
en UTF-EBCDIC
Related terms
en BCD Binary-Coded-Decimal
See also
en ASCII
en Unicode
Appendix:Unicode