From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Not a typewriter
Date: 14 May 2001 11:04:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9dp6nq$fvc$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E14zLj4-0000zO-00@the-village.bc.nu> <200105141729.MAA28295@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil>
Followup to: <200105141729.MAA28295@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil>
By author: Jesse Pollard <pollard@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> well... actually it was 6 bit "ascii" computed from: (char - ' '). Depends
> entirely on architecture, and implementation. EBCD/6Bit/7Bit and EBCDIC were
> supported on the Honeywell systems.
>
There was also a genuine ASCII-6 encoding. It didn't look much like
ASCII-7 as far as I remember.
-hpa
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-14 18:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-11 16:07 Not a typewriter Wayne.Brown
2001-05-11 17:03 ` Joel Jaeggli
2001-05-11 21:43 ` Hacksaw
2001-05-13 23:39 ` Mike A. Harris
2001-05-12 4:18 ` John Alvord
2001-05-13 23:35 ` Mike A. Harris
2001-05-14 1:03 ` Horst von Brand
2001-05-14 14:31 ` John Kodis
2001-05-14 15:33 ` Not a typewriterg Michael Meissner
2001-05-14 15:25 ` Not a typewriter Michael Meissner
2001-05-14 17:01 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-14 17:16 ` Michael Meissner
2001-05-14 17:29 ` Jesse Pollard
2001-05-14 18:04 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2001-05-14 1:31 ` Jonathan Lundell
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2001-05-14 2:59 Wayne.Brown
2001-05-11 23:57 Bingner Sam J. Contractor RSIS
2001-05-11 23:18 Wayne.Brown
2001-05-14 22:22 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-05-11 18:37 Wayne.Brown
2001-05-10 23:06 Wayne.Brown
2001-05-10 23:20 ` Hacksaw
2001-05-10 23:52 ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-05-11 0:07 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-11 2:01 ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-05-11 9:21 ` Malcolm Beattie
2001-05-11 0:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-05-11 1:31 ` David S. Miller
2001-05-11 1:32 ` Blue Lang
2001-05-11 9:31 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-11 12:25 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-05-11 9:37 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-15 14:01 ` Anuradha Ratnaweera
2001-05-10 21:42 Richard B. Johnson
2001-05-10 22:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-05-11 7:22 ` Tom Leete
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