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"Real programmers think in UPPERCASE"! |
"Real programmers think in UPPERCASE"! |
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Note: Whereas today we ''only'' need to worry about [[wp:ASCII|ASCII]], [[wp:UTF-8|UTF-8]], [[wp:UTF-16/UCS-2|UTF-16]], [[wp:UTF-32/UCS-4|UTF-32]], [[wp:UTF-7|UTF-7]] and [[wp:UTF-EBCDIC|UTF-EBCDIC]] encodings, in the 1960s having code in UPPERCASE was often |
Note: Whereas today we ''only'' need to worry about [[wp:ASCII|ASCII]], [[wp:UTF-8|UTF-8]], [[wp:UTF-16/UCS-2|UTF-16]], [[wp:UTF-32/UCS-4|UTF-32]], [[wp:UTF-7|UTF-7]] and [[wp:UTF-EBCDIC|UTF-EBCDIC]] encodings, in the 1960s having code in UPPERCASE was often mandatory as characters were often stuffed into [[wp:36-bit|36-bit]] words as 6 lots of [[wp:6-bit|6-bit]] characters. More extreme words sizes include [[wp:60-bit|60-bit]] words of the [[wp:CDC 6000 series|CDC 6000 series]] computers. The Soviets even had a national character set that was inclusive of all |
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[[wp:GOST_10859#4-bit code: Binary coded decimal|4-bit]], |
[[wp:GOST_10859#4-bit code: Binary coded decimal|4-bit]], |
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[[wp:GOST_10859#5-bit code: with BCD & mathematical operators|5-bit]], |
[[wp:GOST_10859#5-bit code: with BCD & mathematical operators|5-bit]], |
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