How about simply "provincial".

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by a6l6e6x

3/14/05 8:02:42 PM

How about simply "provincial".

Solving their own problems and not the worlds.

Do you forget that 6 computers were going to satisfy all the computational needs of the world?

And no one has yet mentioned IBM's EBCDIC - Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code which came out in 1964 or so. These came in "national" flavors.

Hey, 2nd generation computers used 6-bit codes for characters (related to punch card codes) - uppercase letters, numbers, and a few punctuation marks. [link|http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/cards/codes.html|Link].

It's evolution, guys!

Alex

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you are confusing text with display - (boxley) - (12) - March 12, 2005, 06:53:13 PM EST

Uhhh..Not quite, Bill - (jb4) - (11) - March 25, 2005, 01:50:46 PM EST

And that is one thing that sucks about Unicode - (ben_tilly) - (9) - March 25, 2005, 03:09:44 PM EST

At least they're consistent - (jb4) - (8) - March 25, 2005, 06:02:42 PM EST

But it is a problem - (ben_tilly) - March 25, 2005, 06:13:17 PM EST

Except for that full width/half width ascii thing - (tuberculosis) - (5) - March 27, 2005, 09:40:24 PM EST

I dunno... - (jb4) - March 28, 2005, 12:11:15 PM EST

My personal take on it - (jake123) - (3) - March 28, 2005, 12:15:20 PM EST

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ICLRPD (new thread) - (jb4) - March 29, 2005, 07:57:14 PM EST

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close enough to debug a table entry :-) - (boxley) - March 26, 2005, 09:26:51 AM EST

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Rule #1 - Everything you think you know is wrong - (tuberculosis) - (29) - Aug. 21, 2007, 06:28:08 AM EDT

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Because they didn't think... - (pwhysall) - March 14, 2005, 11:24:31 AM EST

Because if they had spent any time at all - (tuberculosis) - (25) - Aug. 21, 2007, 06:30:01 AM EDT

Now how about addressing my example - (drewk) - (17) - March 14, 2005, 12:13:47 PM EST

The best explanation that I've seen of why 2 digits... - (ben_tilly) - March 14, 2005, 12:46:32 PM EST

No, but they were xenophobic etc - (jake123) - (15) - March 14, 2005, 02:50:01 PM EST

xenophobic's probably the wrong word - (SpiceWare) - (14) - March 14, 2005, 04:12:18 PM EST

Yeah, you're right - (jake123) - (13) - March 14, 2005, 05:02:32 PM EST

How about "escessively humble"? - (drewk) - (4) - March 14, 2005, 05:35:25 PM EST

Look, the point about the two digits for a year is well - (jake123) - (1) - March 14, 2005, 06:09:09 PM EST

Disagree - (jb4) - March 25, 2005, 02:15:41 PM EST

Maybe... - (tuberculosis) - (1) - Aug. 21, 2007, 06:31:43 AM EDT

How about simply "provincial". - (a6l6e6x) - March 14, 2005, 08:02:42 PM EST

The people who coded for teletypes and green terminals - (Arkadiy) - (7) - March 14, 2005, 05:37:55 PM EST

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Internationalization would not have been so easy - (ben_tilly) - March 14, 2005, 07:23:05 PM EST

Text layout in 80 by 24 grid of monspaced font? - (Arkadiy) - (1) - March 14, 2005, 07:59:49 PM EST

Phone books back then - (jake123) - March 15, 2005, 11:18:10 AM EST

Please don't use the letter "e" in your code. - (pwhysall) - (2) - March 14, 2005, 06:20:45 PM EST

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I couldn't use "e" either ... - (JimWeirich) - March 15, 2005, 05:52:09 PM EST

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Dont know ICU - (jb4) - (4) - March 28, 2005, 12:13:20 PM EST

ICLRPD (new thread) - (drewk) - March 28, 2005, 12:33:42 PM EST

You can find it here - (tuberculosis) - (2) - March 28, 2005, 02:44:08 PM EST

Time line? - (jb4) - (1) - March 29, 2005, 07:59:43 PM EST

Released in 1988 - (tuberculosis) - March 29, 2005, 08:07:25 PM EST

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Re: What the heck is text? - (JayMehaffey) - (3) - March 14, 2005, 10:51:50 AM EST

I must correct you - ASCII is a 7-bit encoding - (tuberculosis) - Aug. 21, 2007, 06:30:04 AM EDT

Whoa, there. - (ubernostrum) - (1) - March 14, 2005, 01:31:43 PM EST

Your right mostly - (JayMehaffey) - March 14, 2005, 02:36:05 PM EST

Using a pencil, it's unambiguous. -NT - (mmoffitt) - (3) - March 28, 2005, 01:14:03 PM EST

You haven't seen my handwriting.... -NT - (Another Scott) - (2) - March 28, 2005, 02:04:44 PM EST

Uh-oh. I wouldn't confess that ;0) - (mmoffitt) - (1) - March 28, 2005, 02:56:59 PM EST

My father's handwriting was so bad... - (broomberg) - March 28, 2005, 09:21:00 PM EST

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