ML>     If you read my original post to George, rather than his excerpts
  > from it in his post to me, you would know that I stated that ASCII was
  > (and is) a seven-bit code.  It was embedded in 8-bit media (primarily
  > mag tape) in an additional ANSI Standard in (IIRC) 1965, after IBM had
  > announced its family of 8-bit machines: S/360.  The first desktop
  > computers used ASCII as a 7-bit code embedded in an 8-bit character set,
  > for reasons I have never understood.  As I said in my original post, the
  > "upper 128" (heretofore unused) character codes were added by the IBM PC
  > designers in 1981, who called it "extended ASCII."  AFAIK, there is no
  > official standard for an 8-bit code based on ASCII.

   There is an ANSI standard, I believe...

                                       LRA


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