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By author:    Jesse Pollard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> well... actually it was 6 bit "ascii" computed from: (char - ' '). Depends
> entirely on architecture, and implementation. EBCD/6Bit/7Bit and EBCDIC were
> supported on the Honeywell systems.
> 

There was also a genuine ASCII-6 encoding.  It didn't look much like
ASCII-7 as far as I remember.

        -hpa


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