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Computerworld editorial: ASCII is better than EBCDIC

Did anyone else read Frank Hayes column in the Oct 23 issue of
Computerworld where hs states that ASCII is better than EBCDIC. When I
went thru school (I won't say when but it was after the birth of ASCII
in the '60s) we were taught that EBCDIC was better since it was 8-bit
and supported 256 characters and ASCII was 7 (at least at that time) and
only support 128 characters. Any idea why he would say ASCII was better?

 
p.s. I do agree that both should be retired and replaced by unicode

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