Does C depend on ASCII?

[Barry Margolin]

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I don't
agree that the IBM machine is really geared toward EBCDIC.
What is EBCDIC are the line printers, the card punches
and readers, and terminals, or, in other words, the
peripherals.
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OK, so it is not the machine, but VM, under which UTS runs, certainly
must depend on it.  So, any text passed to system calls has to be
translated to EBCDIC.
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