From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_INVALID,DKIM_SIGNED, MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 12681 invoked from network); 18 Sep 2023 20:02:49 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (2600:3c01:e000:146::1) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 18 Sep 2023 20:02:49 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 836474029C; Tue, 19 Sep 2023 06:02:44 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mail-ua1-x930.google.com (mail-ua1-x930.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4864:20::930]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 28F544029B for ; Tue, 19 Sep 2023 06:02:37 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mail-ua1-x930.google.com with SMTP id a1e0cc1a2514c-7a50bd29064so1495618241.3 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2023 13:02:37 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=dartmouth.edu; s=google1; t=1695067355; x=1695672155; darn=tuhs.org; h=to:subject:message-id:date:from:mime-version:from:to:cc:subject :date:message-id:reply-to; bh=4SjnrPrJvm4VsC6Y824ewse3c7g+crNula6Lweb/M/M=; b=aeECWLSrkmZkLWvG7FmFpDwD0tXe6MonLUsqddLjFz1AWVEHJf6ICuyepD4DwsBX9E Qbgxe88/bn9II1po+1HEMaRNS1J6OaxgyeKAZs4iqqmUc9DN0GvkLoBgpbBdiF5+Go8X 3Vo/mDH6vP0KJPYNNDxAR6cmgtHcOOXvRZO6wZxEUOVtaPZ2yN3G7aG5mEj2kZU7IVJ+ Tlmrt9VTGJsHKG1BdVRVqU5qMoww7Jc6/FNIRtbog31wMyWIwiKK30/z7ijb0gy1vsZu VSqkmej2qj9gKWoPCQm4vJkcr+f18jD7DLC1cbqgBcpBNzE1yiuAPPNf5h0XrhGaAPfp /tWQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20230601; t=1695067355; x=1695672155; h=to:subject:message-id:date:from:mime-version:x-gm-message-state :from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=4SjnrPrJvm4VsC6Y824ewse3c7g+crNula6Lweb/M/M=; b=p/+R3/rAwA0yaKuZ5WP6dLHuaOTEkGMJJFzVmO0yZs/22ifd+4Cqv7up+UvfkpOgpf Uv6XxdEeHPMAARiElGFJk1uz0HxLjAgm4DSjqcu1Z5jWaCppOm2AoqlekUsybZtON2Gw i4xwbkJ3vwepGhNxtDmE1lgeoJmQr+Uy7dICESffozxP6bmpqb1B8HVFnglhDN4uWDNE X4/wOa1xZcBUi9LRImkJTDAYKuoWniE8YF/lOrbydj15ZYLY3fpY0dOl/lYN2G+IRDr6 mKj16Lpls8gvCOOn15uTTVqOgFaILjA8wLbqiZO8ZjnjZNhGOC5rrqyNeMSwQoJTKpQA svwA== X-Gm-Message-State: AOJu0YzRLV6mDHfIKcRCYYrnbm6fj8cYUCBxTZkTpeJ8NR3S6YAndcVk x22AJ8jTmTn5DqRE3KrONOBQuVr97yr7SXcYnYiwu89eBrYNLblo X-Google-Smtp-Source: AGHT+IGjZaivMnGRCvyKkPo9BErirHyjUNhr/9QnYBNdDmKIf+kRU9tRPwbw5HwTs7NOu9VzoPdbmUqNVOVIuIlMKzY= X-Received: by 2002:a67:e715:0:b0:452:8220:6f90 with SMTP id hw21-20020a67e715000000b0045282206f90mr1473786vsb.12.1695067355592; Mon, 18 Sep 2023 13:02:35 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Douglas McIlroy Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2023 16:02:20 -0400 Message-ID: To: TUHS main list Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Message-ID-Hash: SOVRIONVWRLNZYM4MEZYQSDVDV3QLZRO X-Message-ID-Hash: SOVRIONVWRLNZYM4MEZYQSDVDV3QLZRO X-MailFrom: douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: UNIX Influence on Teletype and Vice Versa List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: 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