Information Interchange

• Codes & Operating systems

  UNIX and DOS-based operating systems (except for Windows NT) use ASCII for text files.
  
  Windows NT uses a newer code, Unicode.
  IBM's System 390 servers use a proprietary 8-bit code called EBCDIC.

• Conversion programs allow different operating systems to change a file from one code to another.

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