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To: Spots who wrote (4904)6/25/1998 4:10:00 PM
From: Sean W. Smith  Respond to of 11149
 
I believe originating in the
mostly ASCII DARPA net in the US, though I could be
misremembering the details (or not have had them
right in the first place).


The early Vax's and IBM Mainframes on the net did not use 8 bit ascii..... thus the creation of the encoding scheme's....

Sean