Before S/360, characters were often encoded in 6 bits. Even ASCII was 7 bits. Which allowed the definition of UTF-8.
On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 3:14 PM, Bill Woodger <[email protected]> wrote: > I never thought I'd see film of "the flick", for manual bursting of fan-fold > paper, on YouTube. > > "Characters" is not a surprise. The man with the company cheque-book probably > wouldn't know a byte if it bit him. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
