18 May
2020
18 May
'20
10:30 p.m.
On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 12:12 PM Dan Cross <crossd(a)gmail.com> wrote:
6x6-bit data would certainly hold BAUDOT data, and I
thought the
Univac/CDC machines supported a 6-bit character set?
BAUDOT is 5 bits. CDC used a 6-bit Display code - which there were a
number of different versions. It was a PITA when you programmed it. The
original Pascal compiler was a mess because of this.
Does this live on in the Unisys 1100-series
machines? I see some
reference to FIELDATA online.
https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/univac/fieldata.html
Yes, it was officially a 7-bit code, but the first 1/2 of the code was
non-printable. So the printable set was 6 bits.
they're called 'char' because that was
just the way things had always
been.
Right
Clem