27 Mar
2016
27 Mar
'16
7:35 a.m.
On Saturday, 26 March 2016 at 16:54:48 -0400, Ronald Natalie wrote:
The other fun character set was the old UNIVAC
Fielddata. There
were no non printing characters and in fact not even a null value
(the 0 value was called master space and printed as @).
Fieldata (one D) wasn't alone there. With only 6 bits, you couldn't
afford to have non-printing characters. All 6 bit character sets I've
seen used all combinations (and why not, since control sequences were
out of band).
Greg
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