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ASCII is the American Standard Code for Information Interchange. It uses 7-bit numbers to represent the letters, numerals and common punctuation used in American English. The fact that ASCII uses 7-bit numbers means there are 2-to-the-power-7 or 128 possible values it can represent, from 0 to 127 inclusive. Each of those 128 values is assigned to a character.... ASCII really should have been named ASCIIWOA: the American Standard Code for Information Exchange With Other Americans. The history of character encoding in a U+006E U+0075 U+0074 U+0073 U+0068 U+0065 U+006C U+006C.
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Quote: In the beginning there was ASCIIEBCDIC
FTFY.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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S/360 launched with EBCDIC because by the time ascii was finalized it was too late to rewrite the system. Paper launches don't count.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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