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8 Oct 2024 22:18:40 EDT (-0400)
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From: Darren New
Date: 7 Oct 2009 19:33:45
Message: <4acd2559$1@news.povray.org>
Neeum Zawan wrote:
> On 10/07/09 10:15, Darren New wrote:
>> While the Brits invented the first computers, I'm pretty sure the whole
>> text processing aspect (and in particular the ASCII I'm guessing you're
>> complaining about) was happening in the USA. Not that EBCDIC had an ij
>> ligature in it either.
> 
>     EBCDIC is American.

Technically, it's from IBM, as in International Business Machines. ;-)

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   I ordered stamps from Zazzle that read "Place Stamp Here".


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