From: Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu>
To: TUHS main list <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: UNIX Influence on Teletype and Vice Versa
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2023 16:02:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKH6PiVquEaZbE_Zp4_Z87q648ztYndXr74DcRd00ZQai-Ps3w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Joe Ossanna worked diligently to see that WECo's ASCII teletype really
would come to market and would meet the needs of Unix. He famously
estimated that Bell Labs alone was a sizable market: 777 machines. He
also leaned on WECo to make the return key issue a single newline. And
he specified what non-ascii characters would fill out the 128
positions on the Bell Labs type boxes. This requires encoding 7-bit
ASCII in 8 bits. I don't know whether WECo had been planning to do so
anyway.
Doug
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2023-09-18 20:02 Douglas McIlroy [this message]
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2023-09-22 1:08 Douglas McIlroy
2023-09-22 1:14 ` Larry McVoy
2023-09-22 4:57 ` Dave Horsfall
2023-09-18 18:07 [TUHS] " segaloco via TUHS
2023-09-18 18:21 ` [TUHS] " Ronald Natalie
2023-09-18 18:27 ` Paul Winalski
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