From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: johnl@johnlabovitz.com (John Labovitz) Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2017 11:05:43 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] Line Terminators in Text Files [Was: Re: Why Pascal isNot My Favorite Programming Language - Unearthed!] In-Reply-To: <1504610149.3705790.1095602960.1F439B61@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <20170904093708.E07EC150A5B2@macaroni.inf.ed.ac.uk> <1504610149.3705790.1095602960.1F439B61@webmail.messagingengine.com> Message-ID: On Sep 5, 2017, at 7:15 AM, Random832 wrote: > Incidentally, does anyone know anything about the 1961 DoD 8-bit > character set standard it refers to? I have a book here called _Coded Character Sets, History and Development_ (C.E. Mackenzie, 1980, Addison-Wesley) that is a wealth of info. According to that book, the early 60s military codes were 7-bit, not 8-bit. Maybe Jennings is referring to a later standard? The only reference I can find to a ‘DoD standard’ is this: > During the early 1960s, a different kind of solution was tried in the Department of Defense. Recognizing that 42 graphics — 26 alphabetics, 10 numerics, and 6 specials (period, comma, slash, asterisk, minus sign, and dollar sign) — were common to all trains/chains, an edict was issued that only these 42 graphics could be used on reports. […] (p. 420) —John