Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Not a typewriter | Date | 14 May 2001 11:04:42 -0700 |
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Followup to: <200105141729.MAA28295@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil> By author: Jesse Pollard <pollard@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > well... actually it was 6 bit "ascii" computed from: (char - ' '). Depends > entirely on architecture, and implementation. EBCD/6Bit/7Bit and EBCDIC were > supported on the Honeywell systems. >
There was also a genuine ASCII-6 encoding. It didn't look much like ASCII-7 as far as I remember.
-hpa
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