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I did not ASCII that coming (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 11 months ago (5 children)

0-255 was good enough for me an my grandpappy.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (3 children)

0-127, top bit is always 0.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

i thought the top bit was originally 0 or 1 depending on the evilness/odiousness of the rest of the number, as a parity check.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The standard itself is 7-bit, since wires were deemed more valuable than endpoint logic for the teletype machines way back then. If you're running it on an 8-bit byte machine you could do it either way, although I'm not sure what the point in parity checking individual characters is. Modern software uses 0.

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