Re: ASCII fades

Since you asked:
 
EBCDIC                    8     Extended Binary Coded Decimal
Interchange Code

(I have to do IBM/370 Assembly now, which uses EBCDIC. grrrr!)

-- 
Kevin Kreamer
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Ilmari Karonen wrote:
> 
> RaD Man [ACiD Founder] (rad...@nospam.acid.org) wrote:
> : Wrong wrong wrong wrong WRONG.
> 
> Lest we get any more half truths..
> 
> : There is ASCII and there is Extended ASCII, or otherwise known as MS-DOS
> : Extended ASCII or "high ASCII".  This is just an extension to the basic ASCII
> : character set.  ASCII art which consists only of the lower character set is
> 
> Indeed, but beware of playing tricks with adjectives. Extended ASCII is not
> really ASCII, just as, say, a broken window is not really a window, but just
> pieces of glass. (a contrived example, I know, but you get the point)
> 
> : "oldschool".  Extended ASCII has NOTHING to do with the American National
> : Standards Institute, or ANSI.SYS, or "ANSI Color", or VT-100!
> 
> Well, it might have something to do with ANSI (the institute). The extended
> character set used in Windows and most other systems is called ISO-8559-1 or
> ISO Latin 1, where ISO stands for International Standards Organizations,
> 8559 is the standard, and 1 is the particular set of characters (there are
> other variations such as ISO-8859-2)
> 
> I don't know if there is an equivalent ANSI standard, but there might well
> be, in which case calling them ANSI characters would be, if not too logical,
> then at least justifiable.
> 
> : So remember kids, it's called Extended ASCII!  If it's not colored, it's NOT
> : ANSI!
> 
> And remember: *ANSI does not mean color!* People often use the name as an
> abbreviation for the ANSI standard display control codes (no, I haven't the
> faintest idea what the standard number might be) but IMHO this is one of
> those silly habits like calling a microwave oven a micro.
> 
> And yes, I think there is an equivalent ISO standard.
> 
> To get the point straight, here's a list of character sets:
> 
> Name:                    Bits: Notes:
> ASCII                    7     American Standard Code for Information
>                                Interchange
> ISO-8859-1 / ISO Latin 1 8     (first 128 characters same as in ASCII)
> MS-DOS extended ASCII    8     (first 128 characters same as in ASCII)
> Unicode                  16    (first 256 characters same as in ISO-8859-1)
> 
> Now how many bits did EBCDIC have, I wonder..

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