Expand the following acronyms giving explanations in each case: ASCII, EBCDIC, BCD, FIFO.

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QUESTION 1

(i) Expand the following acronyms giving explanations in each case:

• A. ASCII: American Standard Code for Information Interchange. It is a character encoding standard for electronic communication, representing text in computers and other devices.
• B. EBCDIC: Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code. An 8-bit character encoding primarily used on IBM mainframe and midrange computer operating systems.
• C. BCD: Binary Coded Decimal. A system where each decimal digit is represented by its own 4-bit binary code.
• D. FIFO: First-In, First-Out. A method for organizing and manipulating data, where the first element added to