From: grog@lemis.com (Greg 'groggy' Lehey)
Subject: [TUHS] Command-line options
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2016 12:35:16 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160327013516.GP3766@eureka.lemis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B49E73B-51BD-4834-AA8C-5F9F74BA784E@ronnatalie.com>
On Saturday, 26 March 2016 at 16:54:48 -0400, Ronald Natalie wrote:
> The other fun character set was the old UNIVAC Fielddata. There
> were no non printing characters and in fact not even a null value
> (the 0 value was called master space and printed as @).
Fieldata (one D) wasn't alone there. With only 6 bits, you couldn't
afford to have non-printing characters. All 6 bit character sets I've
seen used all combinations (and why not, since control sequences were
out of band).
Greg
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Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-25 14:43 [TUHS] Is the Teletype the unsung hero of Unix? Aharon Robbins
2016-03-25 19:47 ` Jaap Akkerhuis
2016-03-25 21:03 ` Diomidis Spinellis
2016-03-28 20:12 ` scj
2016-04-01 14:06 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-04-01 22:41 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-03-25 21:29 ` [TUHS] Command-line options Warren Toomey
2016-03-25 23:25 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-03-26 2:10 ` John Cowan
2016-03-26 3:09 ` Charles Anthony
2016-03-26 19:43 ` Clem Cole
2016-03-26 20:54 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-03-26 22:05 ` John Cowan
2016-03-27 1:25 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-03-27 1:50 ` Charles Anthony
2016-03-27 2:01 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-03-27 6:18 ` Random832
2016-03-27 6:57 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-03-27 19:38 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-03-27 1:35 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey [this message]
2016-03-26 3:54 ` [TUHS] Is the Teletype the unsung hero of Unix? Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-03-26 4:30 ` Steve Nickolas
2016-03-26 5:44 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-03-26 8:33 ` Steve Nickolas
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