Acronym for Extended Binary Coded Decimal, a data encoding system used in early computers and mainframes to represent characters and numbers.
Acronym: EBCD from 'Extended Binary Coded Decimal.' An earlier IBM standard that mixed decimal and binary encoding for character representation.
EBCD was IBM's way of making their mainframes understand both numbers and letters before ASCII became the worldwide standard — it's like different civilizations developing incompatible writing systems.
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