(abbreviation, acronym, alt-of) Acronym of Extended Binary-Coded-Decimal Interchange Code, an 8-bit character set and encoding representing 256 alphanumeric and special characters, devised by and used primarily by IBM.
Thus, to translate an EBCDIC message into an ASCII one we need a table with 256 one-byte entries. In each position we put the ASCII code that corresponds to that EBCDIC entry. 1989, D. Russell, The Principles of Computer Networking, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 218: