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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>EBCDIC</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../E.html" title="E"/><link rel="previous" href="eat-flaming-death.html" title="eat flaming death"/><link rel="next" href="ECP.html" title="ECP"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">EBCDIC</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="eat-flaming-death.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">E</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="ECP.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="EBCDIC"/><dt xmlns="" id="EBCDIC"><b>EBCDIC</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/eb<65>s@<40>dik/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/eb<65>see`dik/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/eb<65>k@<40>dik/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p>[abbreviation, Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code] An
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alleged character set used on IBM <a href="../D/dinosaur.html"><i class="glossterm">dinosaur</i></a>s. It
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exists in at least six mutually incompatible versions, all featuring such
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delights as non-contiguous letter sequences and the absence of several
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ASCII punctuation characters fairly important for modern computer languages
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(exactly which characters are absent varies according to which version of
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EBCDIC you're looking at). IBM adapted EBCDIC from
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<a href="../P/punched-card.html"><i class="glossterm">punched card</i></a> code in the early 1960s and promulgated it as a
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customer-control tactic (see <a href="../C/connector-conspiracy.html"><i class="glossterm">connector conspiracy</i></a>),
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spurning the already established ASCII standard. Today, IBM claims to be
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an open-systems company, but IBM's own description of the EBCDIC variants
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and how to convert between them is still internally classified top-secret,
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burn-before-reading. Hackers blanch at the very <span class="emphasis"><em>name</em></span>
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of EBCDIC and consider it a manifestation of purest
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<a href="evil.html"><i class="glossterm">evil</i></a>. See also
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<a href="../F/fear-and-loathing.html"><i class="glossterm">fear and loathing</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="eat-flaming-death.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../E.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="ECP.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">eat flaming death<74></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"><EFBFBD>ECP</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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