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Do people really pronounce it this way...? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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[โ€“] JackbyDev@programming.dev 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I worked for a credit bureau for a while and a product we had used a mainframe for billing customers. So the billing file was in EBCDIC.

[โ€“] toynbee@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Financial and health institutions are famously behind the times.