The Xerox Character Code Standard (XCCS) is a historical 16-bit character encoding that was created by Xerox in 1980 for the exchange of information between...
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The Universal Coded Character Set (UCS, Unicode) is a standard set of characters defined by the international standard ISO/IEC 10646, Information technology...
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Protocol Wars Xerox Character Code Standard Citations Stephens 1989, p. 15. cisco. Xerox Corporation (April 1984). Xerox System Integration Standard Authentication...
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by Xerox to act as a common interchange format between disparate document formats. It was part of a system that included the Xerox Character Code Standard...
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Unicode (redirect from Unicode Standard)
to a group of individuals with connections to Xerox's Character Code Standard (XCCS). In 1987, Xerox employee Joe Becker, along with Apple employees...
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involved with using multiple character encoding standards. Some particularly innovative work was begun at Xerox. The Xerox Star workstation used a multi-byte...
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The Xerox Alto is a computer system developed at Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) in the 1970s. It is considered one of the first workstations or...
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"Letterlike Symbols" in version 1.0 (1991), inherited from the Xerox Character Code Standard. Later versions of Unicode extended this set to all uppercase...
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Xerox Character Code Standard (XCCS) by the present author, a multilingual encoding which has been maintained by Xerox as an internal corporate standard since...
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The Xerox 860, officially named Xerox 860 Information Processing System (IPS), was an early Word Processor incorporating many features later available...
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Standard Compression Scheme for Unicode (SCSU) Symbol (typeface) Xerox Character Code Standard (XCCS) Lotus 1-2-3 Release 3.0 for DOS and newer versions are...
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Xerox Character Code Standard (XCCS) by the present author, a multilingual encoding which has been maintained by Xerox as an internal corporate standard since...
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Bob Belleville (category Xerox people)
Xerox Character Code Standard (XCCS) by the present author, a multilingual encoding which has been maintained by Xerox as an internal corporate standard since...
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The Xerox Star workstation, officially named Xerox Star 8010 Information System, is the first commercial personal computer to incorporate technologies...
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1982 the company offered the standard version for the same price. By 1984, surplus 820 mainboards were available from Xerox for about $50 each, and one...
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languages. In the ASCII character set, this character is encoded by the number 26 (1A hex). Standard keyboards transmit this code when the Ctrl and Z keys...
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Emanuel Goldberg developed a machine that read characters and converted them into standard telegraph code. Concurrently, Edmund Fournier d'Albe developed...
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JBIG2 (section Entropy coding)
arithmetic coding, and the regions are encoded by describing which symbols appear where. Typically, a symbol will correspond to a character of text, but...
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IBM 2741 (section Character codes)
serial terminals employing ASCII code, the most significant data bit of each character is sent first. As with the standard office Selectrics of the day,...
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Smalltalk (section Code blocks)
constructionist learning, but later found use in business. It was created at Xerox PARC by Learning Research Group (LRG) scientists, including Alan Kay, Dan...
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as the XGP (Xerox Graphics Printer). In 1973, The Xerox 1200, used an optical analogue of the drum line printer—a spinning optical character drum and a...
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SDS Sigma series (redirect from Xerox Sigma V)
The Xerox 500 series computers, introduced starting in 1973, were also compatible upgrades to the Sigma systems using newer technology. In 1975, Xerox sold...
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Mesa (programming language) (category Xerox)
Mesa is a programming language developed in the mid 1970s at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in Palo Alto, California, United States. The language...
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BCPL (redirect from O-code machine)
earliest versions of AmigaDOS). BCPL was also the initial language used in the Xerox PARC Alto project. Among other projects, the Bravo document preparation...
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Chorded keyboard (section Standards)
and seven fingers, one could enter any character in the ASCII set—if the user could remember the binary codes. Due to the small number of keys required...
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included in the Xerox Star can be seen as a direct descendant of it. In late 1978, in parallel with but independent of the work at Xerox PARC, Hewlett-Packard...
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for "each one." It is unknown which constant this is supposed to be. Xerox standard XCCS 353/046 just says "Euler's". "UTR #51: Unicode Emoji". Unicode...
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Assembly language (redirect from Assembler code)
Archived from the original on 2020-03-24. Retrieved 2020-03-24. Xerox Data Systems (Oct 1975). Xerox Meta-Symbol Sigma 5-9 Computers Language and Operations Reference...
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Camel case (redirect from CamelCode)
case style first became popular at Xerox PARC around 1978, with the Mesa programming language developed for the Xerox Alto computer. This machine lacked...
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