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

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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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