From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: clemc at ccc.com (Clem Cole) Date: Mon, 18 May 2020 12:30:33 -0400 Subject: [COFF] [TUHS] v7 K&R C In-Reply-To: References: <20200515213138.8E0F72D2D71E@macaroni.inf.ed.ac.uk> <077a01d62b08$e696bee0$b3c43ca0$@ronnatalie.com> <20200515233427.31Vab%steffen@sdaoden.eu> <5DB09C5A-F5DA-4375-AAA5-0711FC6FB1D9@ronnatalie.com> <20200516232607.nLiIx%steffen@sdaoden.eu> Message-ID: On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 12:12 PM Dan Cross wrote: > 6x6-bit data would certainly hold BAUDOT data, and I thought the > Univac/CDC machines supported a 6-bit character set? > BAUDOT is 5 bits. CDC used a 6-bit Display code - which there were a number of different versions. It was a PITA when you programmed it. The original Pascal compiler was a mess because of this. > Does this live on in the Unisys 1100-series machines? I see some > reference to FIELDATA online. > https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/univac/fieldata.html Yes, it was officially a 7-bit code, but the first 1/2 of the code was non-printable. So the printable set was 6 bits. > they're called 'char' because that was just the way things had always > been. > Right Clem -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: