• A six-bit character code is a character encoding designed for use on computers with word lengths a multiple of 6. Six bits can only encode 64 distinct...
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  • letters, and some special and control characters as six-bit character codes. Unlike later encodings such as ASCII, BCD codes were not standardized. Different...
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  • Six-Bit Transcode, or Six-Bit Transmission Code, was, for a few years, one of the three character sets used by IBM for Binary Synchronous Communications...
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  • each character in the text, while in variable-width binary codes, the number of bits may vary from character to character. Several different five-bit codes...
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  • Display code is the six-bit character code used by many computer systems manufactured by Control Data Corporation, notably the CDC 6000 series in 1964...
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    featured a larger character set, including lower case letters. In 1959 the U.S. military defined its Fieldata code, a six-or seven-bit code, introduced by...
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  • Byte (redirect from Six-bit byte)
    bits have been used. The six-bit character code was an often-used implementation in early encoding systems, and computers using six-bit and nine-bit bytes...
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  • of bits per character -- currently almost always 8-bit characters, but historically some transmitters have used a five-bit character code, six-bit character...
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    architecture, 36-bit integers, memory addresses, or other data units are those that are 36 bits (six six-bit characters) wide. Also, 36-bit central processing...
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  • used six-bit character code and used a word length of some multiple of 6-bits. This changed with the effort to introduce ASCII, which used a 7-bit code and...
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    binary code assigns a pattern of binary digits, also known as bits, to each character, instruction, etc. For example, a binary string of eight bits (which...
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  • Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code (EBCDIC; /ˈɛbsɪdɪk/) is an eight-bit character encoding used mainly on IBM mainframe and IBM midrange computer...
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  • Telegraph code TV Typewriter SI 960 (7-bit Hebrew ISO/IEC 646) Figure space (typographic unit equal to the size of a single typographic figure) Six-bit character...
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    the most common teleprinter code in use before ASCII. Each character in the alphabet is represented by a series of five bits, sent over a communication...
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  • standardized ASCII and EBCDIC character sets, and were typically implemented using a manufacturer-specific six-bit character code. A number of ALGOL operations...
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  • concept of a byte. It has 36-bit words and stores its six-bit character codes six to a word. To change the 16th character in a string, the program has...
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  • a given character may be represented in different applications by more than one code, and different codes may use different numbers of bits (ie, different...
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  • adoption of ASCII in the late 1960s, six-bit character codes were common and a 12-bit word, which could hold two characters, was a convenient size. This also...
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  • telecommunications, a control character or non-printing character (NPC) is a code point in a character set that does not represent a written character or symbol. They...
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    Extended ASCII (redirect from 8-bit ASCII)
    Seven-bit ASCII improved over prior five- and six-bit codes. Of the 27=128 codes, 33 were used for controls, and 95 carefully selected printable characters...
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    ASCII (redirect from 7-bit ASCII)
    64 codes to be represented by a six-bit code. In a shifted code, some character codes determine choices between options for the following character codes...
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  • ordered the alphabetic characters on his print wheel using a reflected binary code, and assigned the codes using only three of the bits to vowels. With vowels...
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  • delimiting character, or by an additional bit called, e.g., flag, or word mark. Such machines often use binary-coded decimal in 4-bit digits, or in 6-bit characters...
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    = Shift to mode x for one character; B/S = shift to 8-bit binary x/L = Latch to mode x for following characters Punct codes 2–5 encode two bytes each...
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  • Binary-to-text encoding (category Character encoding)
    number of bits in the input and the number of bits in the encoded output. The 95 isprint codes 32 to 126 are known as the ASCII printable characters. Some...
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  • 2022 Information technology—Character code structure and extension techniques, is an ISO/IEC standard in the field of character encoding. It is equivalent...
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  • DEC RADIX 50 (category Character encoding)
    can encode six characters plus four additional bits into one 36-bit machine word (PDP-6, PDP-10/DECsystem-10, DECSYSTEM-20), three characters plus two additional...
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  • 2022 designed for 8-bit character encodings, and therefore reserves the range 0x80–0x9F for use as non-printing codes by C1 control code sets such as ISO/IEC...
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    Data Matrix (redirect from Datamatrix code)
    characters. Data Matrix symbols are rectangular, usually square in shape and composed of square "cells" which represent bits. Depending on the coding...
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  • characters, limited to a set of 64 unique characters. More specifically, the source binary data is taken 6 bits at a time, then this group of 6 bits is...
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