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310 relations: A, Acknowledgement (data networks), Addison-Wesley, Adobe Inc., Alphabet, American Federation of Information Processing Societies, American National Standards Institute, Amiga, Ampersand, ANSI C, ANSI escape code, Apex (diacritic), Apostrophe, Apple DOS, Apple Inc., ARPANET, Arrow (symbol), ASCII, Asterisk, At sign, AT&T Corporation, Atari, ATASCII, ß, Ł, B, Backslash, Backspace, Backtick, Backward compatibility, Bash (Unix shell), Basic Latin (Unicode block), Baudot code, Bell character, Beyoncé, Binary number, Binary-coded decimal, Bit, Bit numbering, Bit-paired keyboard, Bob Bemer, Box-drawing characters, Buffer overflow, C, C (programming language), C0 and C1 control codes, Cancel character, Caret, Caret notation, Carriage return, ... Expand index (260 more) »
- American National Standards Institute standards
- Computer-related introductions in 1963
- Latin-script representations
- Presentation layer protocols
A
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, and others worldwide.
See ASCII and A
Acknowledgement (data networks)
In data networking, telecommunications, and computer buses, an acknowledgement (ACK) is a signal that is passed between communicating processes, computers, or devices to signify acknowledgment, or receipt of message, as part of a communications protocol.
See ASCII and Acknowledgement (data networks)
Addison-Wesley
Addison–Wesley is an American publisher of textbooks and computer literature.
Adobe Inc.
Adobe Inc., formerly Adobe Systems Incorporated, is an American computer software company based in San Jose, California.
Alphabet
An alphabet is a standard set of letters written to represent particular sounds in a spoken language.
American Federation of Information Processing Societies
The American Federation of Information Processing Societies (AFIPS) was an umbrella organization of professional societies established on May 10, 1961, and dissolved in 1990.
See ASCII and American Federation of Information Processing Societies
American National Standards Institute
The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) is a private nonprofit organization that oversees the development of voluntary consensus standards for products, services, processes, systems, and personnel in the United States.
See ASCII and American National Standards Institute
Amiga
Amiga is a family of personal computers introduced by Commodore in 1985.
See ASCII and Amiga
Ampersand
The ampersand, also known as the and sign, is the logogram, representing the conjunction "and".
ANSI C
ANSI C, ISO C, and Standard C are successive standards for the C programming language published by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22/WG 14 of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). ASCII and ANSI C are American National Standards Institute standards.
See ASCII and ANSI C
ANSI escape code
ANSI escape sequences are a standard for in-band signaling to control cursor location, color, font styling, and other options on video text terminals and terminal emulators. ASCII and ANSI escape code are American National Standards Institute standards.
See ASCII and ANSI escape code
Apex (diacritic)
In written Latin, the apex (plural "apices") is a mark with roughly the shape of an acute accent or apostrophe that was sometimes placed over vowels to indicate that they were long.
See ASCII and Apex (diacritic)
Apostrophe
The apostrophe is a punctuation mark, and sometimes a diacritical mark, in languages that use the Latin alphabet and some other alphabets.
Apple DOS
Apple DOS is the disk operating system for the Apple II computers from late 1978 through early 1983.
Apple Inc.
Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, in Silicon Valley.
ARPANET
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was the first wide-area packet-switched network with distributed control and one of the first computer networks to implement the TCP/IP protocol suite.
Arrow (symbol)
An arrow is a graphical symbol, such as ← or →, or a pictogram, used to point or indicate direction.
ASCII
ASCII, an acronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard for electronic communication. ASCII and ASCII are American National Standards Institute standards, character encoding, character sets, computer-related introductions in 1963, Latin-script representations and Presentation layer protocols.
See ASCII and ASCII
Asterisk
The asterisk, from Late Latin asteriscus, from Ancient Greek ἀστερίσκος,, "little star", is a typographical symbol.
At sign
The at sign,, is an accounting and invoice abbreviation meaning "at a rate of" (e.g. 7 widgets @ £2 per widget.
AT&T Corporation
AT&T Corporation, commonly referred to as AT&T, an abbreviation for its former name, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, was an American telecommunications company that provided voice, video, data, and Internet telecommunications and professional services to businesses, consumers, and government agencies.
See ASCII and AT&T Corporation
Atari
Atari is a brand name that has been owned by several entities since its inception in 1972.
See ASCII and Atari
ATASCII
The ATASCII character set, from ATARI Standard Code for Information Interchange, alternatively ATARI ASCII, is a character encoding used in the Atari 8-bit home computers. ASCII and ATASCII are character sets.
ß
In German orthography, the letter ß, called Eszett or scharfes S ("sharp S"), represents the phoneme in Standard German when following long vowels and diphthongs.
See ASCII and ß
Ł
L stroke Category:Belarusian language L stroke Category:Navajo language Category:Polish letters with diacritics Ł or ł, described in English as L with stroke, is a letter of the Polish, Kashubian, Sorbian, Belarusian Latin, Ukrainian Latin, Wymysorys, Navajo, Dëne Sųłıné, Inupiaq, Zuni, Hupa, Sm'álgyax, Nisga'a, and Dogrib alphabets, several proposed alphabets for the Venetian language, and the ISO 11940 romanization of the Thai script.
See ASCII and Ł
B
B, or b, is the second letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
See ASCII and B
Backslash
The backslash is a mark used mainly in computing and mathematics.
Backspace
Backspace is the keyboard key that in typewriters originally pushed the carriage one position backwards, and in modern computer systems typically moves the display cursor one position backwards,The meaning of "backwards" depends on the direction of the text, and could get complicated in text involving several bidirectional categories.
Backtick
The backtick is a typographical mark used mainly in computing.
Backward compatibility
In telecommunications and computing, backward compatibility (or backwards compatibility) is a property of an operating system, software, real-world product, or technology that allows for interoperability with an older legacy system, or with input designed for such a system.
See ASCII and Backward compatibility
Bash (Unix shell)
Bash, short for Bourne-Again SHell, is a shell program and command language supported by the Free Software Foundation and first developed for the GNU Project by Brian Fox.
See ASCII and Bash (Unix shell)
Basic Latin (Unicode block)
The Basic Latin Unicode block, sometimes informally called C0 Controls and Basic Latin, is the first block of the Unicode standard, and the only block which is encoded in one byte in UTF-8.
See ASCII and Basic Latin (Unicode block)
Baudot code
The Baudot code is an early character encoding for telegraphy invented by Émile Baudot in the 1870s. ASCII and Baudot code are character encoding and character sets.
Bell character
A bell character (sometimes bell code) is a device control code originally sent to ring a small electromechanical bell on tickers and other teleprinters and teletypewriters to alert operators at the other end of the line, often of an incoming message.
Beyoncé
Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter (Knowles; born September 4, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, and businesswoman.
Binary number
A binary number is a number expressed in the base-2 numeral system or binary numeral system, a method for representing numbers that uses only two symbols for the natural numbers: typically "0" (zero) and "1" (one).
Binary-coded decimal
In computing and electronic systems, binary-coded decimal (BCD) is a class of binary encodings of decimal numbers where each digit is represented by a fixed number of bits, usually four or eight.
See ASCII and Binary-coded decimal
Bit
The bit is the most basic unit of information in computing and digital communication.
See ASCII and Bit
Bit numbering
In computing, bit numbering is the convention used to identify the bit positions in a binary number.
Bit-paired keyboard
A bit-paired keyboard is a keyboard where the layout of shifted keys corresponds to columns in the ASCII (1963) table, archetypally the Teletype Model 33 (1963) keyboard.
See ASCII and Bit-paired keyboard
Bob Bemer
Robert William Bemer (February 8, 1920 – June 22, 2004) was a computer scientist best known for his work at IBM during the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Box-drawing characters
Box-drawing characters, also known as line-drawing characters, are a form of semigraphics widely used in text user interfaces to draw various geometric frames and boxes. ASCII and box-drawing characters are character sets.
See ASCII and Box-drawing characters
Buffer overflow
In programming and information security, a buffer overflow or buffer overrun is an anomaly whereby a program writes data to a buffer beyond the buffer's allocated memory, overwriting adjacent memory locations.
C
C, or c, is the third letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
See ASCII and C
C (programming language)
C (pronounced – like the letter c) is a general-purpose programming language.
See ASCII and C (programming language)
C0 and C1 control codes
The C0 and C1 control code or control character sets define control codes for use in text by computer systems that use ASCII and derivatives of ASCII.
See ASCII and C0 and C1 control codes
Cancel character
In telecommunication and character encoding, the term cancel character refers to a control character which may be either of.
See ASCII and Cancel character
Caret
Caret is the name used familiarly for the character (the circumflex and a circumflex accent) provided on most QWERTY keyboards by typing.
See ASCII and Caret
Caret notation
Caret notation is a notation for control characters in ASCII. ASCII and Caret notation are character sets.
Carriage return
A carriage return, sometimes known as a cartridge return and often shortened to CR, or return, is a control character or mechanism used to reset a device's position to the beginning of a line of text.
Case sensitivity
In computers, case sensitivity defines whether uppercase and lowercase letters are treated as distinct (case-sensitive) or equivalent (case-insensitive).
See ASCII and Case sensitivity
Cent (currency)
The cent is a monetary unit of many national currencies that equals of the basic monetary unit.
Character (computing)
In computer and machine-based telecommunications terminology, a character is a unit of information that roughly corresponds to a grapheme, grapheme-like unit, or symbol, such as in an alphabet or syllabary in the written form of a natural language. ASCII and character (computing) are character encoding.
See ASCII and Character (computing)
Character encoding
Character encoding is the process of assigning numbers to graphical characters, especially the written characters of human language, allowing them to be stored, transmitted, and transformed using digital computers. ASCII and character encoding are Presentation layer protocols.
See ASCII and Character encoding
Character encodings in HTML
While Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) has been in use since 1991, HTML 4.0 from December 1997 was the first standardized version where international characters were given reasonably complete treatment.
See ASCII and Character encodings in HTML
CNN
Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.
See ASCII and CNN
Code page 1104
Code page 1104 (CCSID 1104), also known as CP1104, F7DEC, ISO-IR-025 or NF Z 62-010 (1973) is an IBM code page number assigned to the French variant of DEC's National Replacement Character Set (NRCS). ASCII and code page 1104 are character sets.
Code page 437
Code page 437 (CCSID 437) is the character set of the original IBM PC (personal computer).
Code point
A code point, codepoint or code position is a particular position in a table, where the position has been assigned a meaning. ASCII and code point are character encoding.
Collation
Collation is the assembly of written information into a standard order. ASCII and Collation are character encoding.
Colon (punctuation)
The colon,, is a punctuation mark consisting of two equally sized dots aligned vertically.
See ASCII and Colon (punctuation)
Comma
The comma is a punctuation mark that appears in several variants in different languages.
See ASCII and Comma
Commodore International
Commodore International Corporation (other names include Commodore International Limited) was a Bahamian home computer and electronics manufacturer with executive offices in the United States founded by Jack Tramiel and Irving Gould. Commodore International (CI), along with its subsidiary Commodore Business Machines (CBM), was a significant participant in the development of the home computer industry in the 1970s to early 1990s.
See ASCII and Commodore International
Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM is the monthly journal of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
See ASCII and Communications of the ACM
Computer (magazine)
Computer is an IEEE Computer Society practitioner-oriented magazine issued to all members of the society.
See ASCII and Computer (magazine)
Computer terminal
A computer terminal is an electronic or electromechanical hardware device that can be used for entering data into, and transcribing data from, a computer or a computing system.
See ASCII and Computer terminal
Control character
In computing and telecommunication, 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.
See ASCII and Control character
Control key
In computing, a Control key is a modifier key which, when pressed in conjunction with another key, performs a special operation (for example, C).
Control Pictures
Control Pictures is a Unicode block containing characters for graphically representing the C0 control codes, and other control characters.
See ASCII and Control Pictures
Control-C
Control-C is a common computer command.
CP/M
CP/M, originally standing for Control Program/Monitor and later Control Program for Microcomputers, is a mass-market operating system created in 1974 for Intel 8080/85-based microcomputers by Gary Kildall of Digital Research, Inc. CP/M is a disk operating system and its purpose is to organize files on a magnetic storage medium, and to load and run programs stored on a disk.
See ASCII and CP/M
CRC Press
The CRC Press, LLC is an American publishing group that specializes in producing technical books.
D
D, or d, is the fourth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
See ASCII and D
Data communication
Data communication, including data transmission and data reception, is the transfer of data, transmitted and received over a point-to-point or point-to-multipoint communication channel.
See ASCII and Data communication
Data stream
In connection-oriented communication, a data stream is the transmission of a sequence of digitally encoded signals to convey information.
De facto standard
A de facto standard is a custom or convention that is commonly used even though its use is not required.
See ASCII and De facto standard
Decimal
The decimal numeral system (also called the base-ten positional numeral system and denary or decanary) is the standard system for denoting integer and non-integer numbers.
Delete character
The delete control character (also called DEL or rubout) is the last character in the ASCII repertoire, with the code 127.
See ASCII and Delete character
Delete key
The delete key (often abbreviated del) is a button on most computer keyboards which is typically used to delete either (in text mode) the character ahead of or beneath the cursor, or (in GUI mode) the currently-selected object.
Digital data
Digital data, in information theory and information systems, is information represented as a string of discrete symbols, each of which can take on one of only a finite number of values from some alphabet, such as letters or digits.
Digital Equipment Corporation
Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), using the trademark Digital, was a major American company in the computer industry from the 1960s to the 1990s.
See ASCII and Digital Equipment Corporation
Digital Research
Digital Research, Inc. (DR or DRI) was a privately held American software company created by Gary Kildall to market and develop his CP/M operating system and related 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit systems like MP/M, Concurrent DOS, FlexOS, Multiuser DOS, DOS Plus, DR DOS and GEM.
See ASCII and Digital Research
Digraphs and trigraphs (programming)
In computer programming, digraphs and trigraphs are sequences of two and three characters, respectively, that appear in source code and, according to a programming language's specification, should be treated as if they were single characters. ASCII and digraphs and trigraphs (programming) are character encoding.
See ASCII and Digraphs and trigraphs (programming)
Dollar sign
The dollar sign, also known as the peso sign, is a currency symbol consisting of a capital crossed with one or two vertical strokes (or depending on typeface), used to indicate the unit of various currencies around the world, including most currencies denominated "dollar" or "peso".
E
E, or e, is the fifth letter and the second vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
See ASCII and E
EBCDIC
Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code (EBCDIC) is an eight-bit character encoding used mainly on IBM mainframe and IBM midrange computer operating systems.
See ASCII and EBCDIC
Electronics World
Electronics World (Wireless World, founded in 1913, and in October 1983 renamed Electronics & Wireless World) is a technical magazine in electronics and RF engineering aimed at professional design engineers.
See ASCII and Electronics World
Emoticon
An emoticon (rarely), short for emotion icon, is a pictorial representation of a facial expression using characters—usually punctuation marks, numbers, and letters—to express a person's feelings, mood, or reaction, without needing to describe it in detail.
End of message
End of message or EOM (as in "(EOM)" or "") signifies the end of a message, often an e-mail message.
End-of-file
In computing, end-of-file (EOF) is a condition in a computer operating system where no more data can be read from a data source.
End-of-Text character
The End-of-Text character (ETX) is a control character used to inform the receiving computer that the end of a record has been reached.
See ASCII and End-of-Text character
End-of-Transmission character
In telecommunication, an End-of-Transmission character (EOT) is a transmission control character.
See ASCII and End-of-Transmission character
End-of-Transmission-Block character
End-of-Transmission-Block (ETB) is a communications control character used to indicate the end of a block of data for communications purposes.
See ASCII and End-of-Transmission-Block character
English alphabet
Modern English is written with a Latin-script alphabet consisting of 26 letters, with each having both uppercase and lowercase forms.
See ASCII and English alphabet
English language
English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.
See ASCII and English language
English terms with diacritical marks
English rarely uses diacritics, which are symbols indicating the modification of a letter's sound when spoken.
See ASCII and English terms with diacritical marks
Enquiry character
In computer communications, enquiry is a transmission-control character that requests a response from the receiving station with which a connection has been set up.
See ASCII and Enquiry character
Equals sign
The equals sign (British English) or equal sign (American English), also known as the equality sign, is the mathematical symbol, which is used to indicate equality in some well-defined sense.
Error detection and correction
In information theory and coding theory with applications in computer science and telecommunication, error detection and correction (EDAC) or error control are techniques that enable reliable delivery of digital data over unreliable communication channels.
See ASCII and Error detection and correction
Escape character
In computing and telecommunication, an escape character is a character that invokes an alternative interpretation on the following characters in a character sequence.
See ASCII and Escape character
Escape sequence
In computer science, an escape sequence is a combination of characters that has a meaning other than the literal characters contained therein; it is marked by one or more preceding (and possibly terminating) characters.
Escape sequences in C
In the C programming language, an escape sequence is specially delimited text in a character or string literal that represents one or more other characters to the compiler.
See ASCII and Escape sequences in C
Exclamation mark
The exclamation mark (also known as exclamation point in American English) is a punctuation mark usually used after an interjection or exclamation to indicate strong feelings or to show emphasis.
See ASCII and Exclamation mark
Exit (system call)
On many computer operating systems, a computer process terminates its execution by making an exit system call.
See ASCII and Exit (system call)
Extended ASCII
Extended ASCII is a repertoire of character encodings that include (most of) the original 96 ASCII character set, plus up to 128 additional characters. ASCII and Extended ASCII are character sets.
F
F, or f, is the sixth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
See ASCII and F
Federal government of the United States
The federal government of the United States (U.S. federal government or U.S. government) is the national government of the United States, a federal republic located primarily in North America, composed of 50 states, five major self-governing territories, several island possessions, and the federal district/national capital of Washington, D.C., where most of the federal government is based.
See ASCII and Federal government of the United States
Fieldata
FIELDATA (also written as Fieldata) was a pioneering computer project run by the US Army Signal Corps in the late 1950s that intended to create a single standard (as defined in MIL-STD-188A/B/C) for collecting and distributing battlefield information. ASCII and Fieldata are character sets.
File Transfer Protocol
The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a standard communication protocol used for the transfer of computer files from a server to a client on a computer network.
See ASCII and File Transfer Protocol
Flow control (data)
In data communications, flow control is the process of managing the rate of data transmission between two nodes to prevent a fast sender from overwhelming a slow receiver.
See ASCII and Flow control (data)
Forward compatibility
Forward compatibility or upward compatibility is a design characteristic that allows a system to accept input intended for a later version of itself.
See ASCII and Forward compatibility
Full stop
The full stop (Commonwealth English), period (North American English), or full point is a punctuation mark used for several purposes, most often to mark the end of a declarative sentence (as distinguished from a question or exclamation).
G
G, or g, is the seventh letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages, and others worldwide.
See ASCII and G
Gary Kildall
Gary Arlen Kildall (May 19, 1942 – July 11, 1994) was an American computer scientist and microcomputer entrepreneur.
GNU Compiler Collection
The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) is a collection of compilers from the GNU Project that support various programming languages, hardware architectures and operating systems.
See ASCII and GNU Compiler Collection
GNU Emacs
GNU Emacs is a free software text editor.
Grapheme
In linguistics, a grapheme is the smallest functional unit of a writing system.
Graphical user interface
A graphical user interface, or GUI, is a form of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices through graphical icons and visual indicators such as secondary notation.
See ASCII and Graphical user interface
Greater-than sign
The greater-than sign is a mathematical symbol that denotes an inequality between two values.
See ASCII and Greater-than sign
H
H, or h, is the eighth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, including the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
See ASCII and H
Hamming distance
In information theory, the Hamming distance between two strings or vectors of equal length is the number of positions at which the corresponding symbols are different.
See ASCII and Hamming distance
Hexadecimal
In mathematics and computing, the hexadecimal (also base-16 or simply hex) numeral system is a positional numeral system that represents numbers using a radix (base) of sixteen.
Hugh McGregor Ross
Hugh McGregor Ross (31 August 1917 – 1 September 2014) was an early pioneer in the history of British computing.
See ASCII and Hugh McGregor Ross
Hyphen-minus
The hyphen-minus symbol is the form of hyphen most commonly used in digital documents.
I
I, or i, is the ninth letter and the third vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
See ASCII and I
IBM
International Business Machines Corporation (using the trademark IBM), nicknamed Big Blue, is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York and present in over 175 countries.
See ASCII and IBM
IBM 2260
The text-only monochrome IBM 2260 cathode-ray tube (CRT) video display terminal (Display Station) plus keyboard was a 1964 predecessor to the more-powerful IBM 3270 terminal line which eventually was extended to support color text and graphics.
IBM Personal Computer
The IBM Personal Computer (model 5150, commonly known as the IBM PC) is the first microcomputer released in the IBM PC model line and the basis for the IBM PC compatible ''de facto'' standard.
See ASCII and IBM Personal Computer
IBM Selectric
The IBM Selectric (a portmanteau of "selective" and "electric") was a highly successful line of electric typewriters introduced by IBM on 31 July 1961.
Ido
Ido is a constructed language derived from a reformed version of Esperanto, and similarly designed with the goal of being a universal second language for people of diverse backgrounds.
See ASCII and Ido
Indian Script Code for Information Interchange
Indian Standard Code for Information Interchange (ISCII) is a coding scheme for representing various writing systems of India. ASCII and Indian Script Code for Information Interchange are character sets.
See ASCII and Indian Script Code for Information Interchange
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) professional association for electronics engineering, electrical engineering, and other related disciplines.
See ASCII and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Interlingua
Interlingua is an international auxiliary language (IAL) developed between 1937 and 1951 by the American International Auxiliary Language Association (IALA).
International Committee for Information Technology Standards
The InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS), (pronounced "insights"), is an ANSI-accredited standards development organization composed of Information technology developers.
See ASCII and International Committee for Information Technology Standards
International Organization for Standardization
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is an independent, non-governmental, international standard development organization composed of representatives from the national standards organizations of member countries.
See ASCII and International Organization for Standardization
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) is a standards organization that oversees global IP address allocation, autonomous system number allocation, root zone management in the Domain Name System (DNS), media types, and other Internet Protocol–related symbols and Internet numbers.
See ASCII and Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
Internet Engineering Task Force
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is a standards organization for the Internet and is responsible for the technical standards that make up the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP).
See ASCII and Internet Engineering Task Force
Interpunct
An interpunct, also known as an interpoint, middle dot, middot, centered dot or centred dot, is a punctuation mark consisting of a vertically centered dot used for interword separation in Classical Latin.
ISO 2047
ISO 2047 (Information processing – Graphical representations for the control characters of the 7-bit coded character set) is a standard for graphical representation of the control characters for debugging purposes, such as may be found in the character generator of a computer terminal; it also establishes a two-letter abbreviation of each control character.
ISO/IEC 2022
ISO/IEC 2022 Information technology—Character code structure and extension techniques, is an ISO/IEC standard in the field of character encoding. ASCII and ISO/IEC 2022 are character sets.
ISO/IEC 646
ISO/IEC 646 is a set of ISO/IEC standards, described as Information technology — ISO 7-bit coded character set for information interchange and developed in cooperation with ASCII at least since 1964. ASCII and ISO/IEC 646 are character sets.
ISO/IEC 8859
ISO/IEC 8859 is a joint ISO and IEC series of standards for 8-bit character encodings. ASCII and ISO/IEC 8859 are character sets.
ISO/IEC 8859-1
ISO/IEC 8859-1:1998, Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 1: Latin alphabet No. ASCII and ISO/IEC 8859-1 are character sets.
ITU-T
The International Telecommunication Union Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) is one of the three Sectors (branches) of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).
See ASCII and ITU-T
J
J, or j, is the tenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
See ASCII and J
Jalapeño
The jalapeño is a medium-sized chili pepper pod type cultivar of the species Capsicum annuum.
Jargon File
The Jargon File is a glossary and usage dictionary of slang used by computer programmers.
Java (programming language)
Java is a high-level, class-based, object-oriented programming language that is designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible.
See ASCII and Java (programming language)
Joint Computer Conference
The Joint Computer Conferences were a series of computer conferences in the United States held under various names between 1951 and 1987.
See ASCII and Joint Computer Conference
K
K, or k, is the eleventh letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
See ASCII and K
Kaypro
Kaypro Corporation was an American home and personal computer manufacturer based in Solana Beach in the 1980s.
See ASCII and Kaypro
KOI-8
KOI-8 (КОИ-8) is an 8-bit character set standardized in GOST 19768-74. ASCII and KOI-8 are character sets.
See ASCII and KOI-8
KornShell
KornShell (ksh) is a Unix shell which was developed by David Korn at Bell Labs in the early 1980s and announced at USENIX on July 14, 1983.
L
L, or l, is the twelfth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
See ASCII and L
Less-than sign
The less-than sign is a mathematical symbol that denotes an inequality between two values.
Letter case
Letter case is the distinction between the letters that are in larger uppercase or capitals (or more formally majuscule) and smaller lowercase (or more formally minuscule) in the written representation of certain languages.
List of information system character sets
This list provides an inventory of character coding standards mainly before modern standards like ISO/IEC 646 etc. ASCII and list of information system character sets are character sets and Presentation layer protocols.
See ASCII and List of information system character sets
List of Unicode characters
As of Unicode version, there are 149,878 characters with code points, covering 161 modern and historical scripts, as well as multiple symbol sets.
See ASCII and List of Unicode characters
Luther H. Hodges
Luther Hartwell Hodges (March 9, 1898October 6, 1974) was a businessman and American politician.
See ASCII and Luther H. Hodges
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908January 22, 1973), often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969.
See ASCII and Lyndon B. Johnson
M
M, or m, is the thirteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
See ASCII and M
Mac operating systems
Mac operating systems were developed by Apple Inc. in a succession of two major series.
See ASCII and Mac operating systems
Mac OS Roman
Mac OS Roman is a character encoding created by Apple Computer, Inc. for use by Macintosh computers. ASCII and Mac OS Roman are character sets.
MacOS
macOS, originally Mac OS X, previously shortened as OS X, is an operating system developed and marketed by Apple since 2001.
See ASCII and MacOS
Malay language
Malay (Bahasa Melayu, Jawi: بهاس ملايو) is an Austronesian language that is an official language of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore, and that is also spoken in East Timor and parts of Thailand.
Markup language
A markup language is a text-encoding system which specifies the structure and formatting of a document and potentially the relationship between its parts.
Metadata
Metadata (or metainformation) is "data that provides information about other data", but not the content of the data itself, such as the text of a message or the image itself.
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a product line of proprietary graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft.
See ASCII and Microsoft Windows
Mnemonic
A mnemonic device or memory device is any learning technique that aids information retention or retrieval in the human memory, often by associating the information with something that is easier to remember.
Model M keyboard
Model M keyboards are a group of computer keyboards designed and manufactured by IBM starting in 1985, and later by Lexmark International, Maxi Switch, and Unicomp.
See ASCII and Model M keyboard
MS-DOS
MS-DOS (acronym for Microsoft Disk Operating System, also known as Microsoft DOS) is an operating system for x86-based personal computers mostly developed by Microsoft.
See ASCII and MS-DOS
Multics
Multics ("MULTiplexed Information and Computing Service") is an influential early time-sharing operating system based on the concept of a single-level memory.
Multinational Character Set
The Multinational Character Set (DMCS or MCS) is a character encoding created in 1983 by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) for use in the popular VT220 terminal. ASCII and Multinational Character Set are character sets.
See ASCII and Multinational Character Set
N
N, or n, is the fourteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages, and others worldwide.
See ASCII and N
Natural number
In mathematics, the natural numbers are the numbers 0, 1, 2, 3, etc., possibly excluding 0.
Negation
In logic, negation, also called the logical not or logical complement, is an operation that takes a proposition P to another proposition "not P", standing for "P is not true", written \neg P, \mathord P or \overline.
Newline
A newline (frequently called line ending, end of line (EOL), next line (NEL) or line break) is a control character or sequence of control characters in character encoding specifications such as ASCII, EBCDIC, Unicode, etc.
Nibble
In computing, a nibble (occasionally nybble, nyble, or nybl to match the spelling of byte) is a four-bit aggregation, or half an octet.
See ASCII and Nibble
Null character
The null character (also null terminator) is a control character with the value zero.
Null-terminated string
In computer programming, a null-terminated string is a character string stored as an array containing the characters and terminated with a null character (a character with an internal value of zero, called "NUL" in this article, not same as the glyph zero).
See ASCII and Null-terminated string
Number sign
The symbol is known variously in English-speaking regions as the number sign, hash, or pound sign.
Numerical digit
A numerical digit (often shortened to just digit) or numeral is a single symbol used alone (such as "1") or in combinations (such as "15"), to represent numbers in a positional numeral system.
O
O, or o, is the fifteenth letter and the fourth vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
See ASCII and O
O'Reilly Media
O'Reilly Media, Inc. (formerly O'Reilly & Associates) is an American learning company established by Tim O'Reilly provides technical and professional skills development courses via an online learning platform.
Octal
Octal (base 8) is a numeral system with eight as the base.
See ASCII and Octal
Octet (computing)
The octet is a unit of digital information in computing and telecommunications that consists of eight bits.
See ASCII and Octet (computing)
Operating system
An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common services for computer programs.
See ASCII and Operating system
OS/360 and successors
OS/360, officially known as IBM System/360 Operating System, is a discontinued batch processing operating system developed by IBM for their then-new System/360 mainframe computer, announced in 1964; it was influenced by the earlier IBSYS/IBJOB and Input/Output Control System (IOCS) packages for the IBM 7090/7094 and even more so by the PR155 Operating System for the IBM 1410/7010 processors.
See ASCII and OS/360 and successors
OS/8
OS/8 is the primary operating system used on the Digital Equipment Corporation's PDP-8 minicomputer.
See ASCII and OS/8
Out-of-band data
In computer networking, out-of-band data is the data transferred through a stream that is independent from the main in-band data stream.
See ASCII and Out-of-band data
P
P, or p, is the sixteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
See ASCII and P
Page break
A page break is a marker in an electronic document that tells the document interpreter that the content which follows is part of a new page.
Parity bit
A parity bit, or check bit, is a bit added to a string of binary code.
PCMag
PC Magazine (shortened as PCMag) is an American computer magazine published by Ziff Davis.
See ASCII and PCMag
Percent sign
The percent sign (sometimes per cent sign in British English) is the symbol used to indicate a percentage, a number or ratio as a fraction of 100.
Peripheral
A peripheral device, or simply peripheral, is an auxiliary hardware device that a computer uses to transfer information externally.
Perl
Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language.
See ASCII and Perl
PETSCII
PETSCII (PET Standard Code of Information Interchange), also known as CBM ASCII, is the character set used in Commodore Business Machines' 8-bit home computers. ASCII and PETSCII are character sets.
Plain text
In computing, plain text is a loose term for data (e.g. file contents) that represent only characters of readable material but not its graphical representation nor other objects (floating-point numbers, images, etc.). It may also include a limited number of "whitespace" characters that affect simple arrangement of text, such as spaces, line breaks, or tabulation characters.
Plus and minus signs
The plus sign and the minus sign are mathematical symbols used to denote positive and negative functions, respectively.
See ASCII and Plus and minus signs
PostScript
PostScript (often abbreviated as PS) is a page description language and dynamically typed, stack-based programming language.
PostScript Standard Encoding
The PostScript Standard Encoding (often spelled StandardEncoding, aliased as PostScript) is one of the character sets (or encoding vectors) used by Adobe Systems' PostScript (PS) since 1984. ASCII and PostScript Standard Encoding are character sets.
See ASCII and PostScript Standard Encoding
Pound sign
The pound sign is the symbol for the pound unit of sterling – the currency of the United Kingdom and its associated Crown Dependencies and British Overseas Territories and previously of Great Britain and of the Kingdom of England.
Pound sterling
Sterling (ISO code: GBP) is the currency of the United Kingdom and nine of its associated territories.
Printer (computing)
In computing, a printer is a peripheral machine which makes a durable representation of graphics or text, usually on paper.
See ASCII and Printer (computing)
Proper noun
A proper noun is a noun that identifies a single entity and is used to refer to that entity (Africa; Jupiter; Sarah; Walmart) as distinguished from a common noun, which is a noun that refers to a class of entities (continent, planet, person, corporation) and may be used when referring to instances of a specific class (a continent, another planet, these persons, our corporation).
Punched card
A punched card (also punch card or punched-card) is a piece of card stock that stores digital data using punched holes.
Punched tape
Five- and eight-hole wide punched paper tape Paper tape reader on the Harwell computer with a small piece of five-hole tape connected in a circle – creating a physical program loop Punched tape or perforated paper tape is a form of data storage device that consists of a long strip of paper through which small holes are punched.
Punctuation
Punctuation marks are marks indicating how a piece of written text should be read (silently or aloud) and, consequently, understood.
Q
Q, or q, is the seventeenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
See ASCII and Q
Question mark
The question mark (also known as interrogation point, query, or eroteme in journalism) is a punctuation mark that indicates a question or interrogative clause or phrase in many languages.
Quotation mark
Quotation marks are punctuation marks used in pairs in various writing systems to identify direct speech, a quotation, or a phrase.
R
R, or r, is the eighteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
See ASCII and R
Résumé
A résumé, sometimes spelled resume (or alternatively resumé), is a document created and used by a person to present their background, skills, and accomplishments.
See ASCII and Résumé
Reverse video
Reverse video (or invert video or inverse video or reverse screen) is a computer display technique whereby the background and text color values are inverted.
Rotokas alphabet
The modern Rotokas alphabet is a Latin alphabet consisting of only 12 letters of the ISO basic Latin alphabet without diacritics: It is the smallest alphabet in use today.
See ASCII and Rotokas alphabet
RSTS/E
RSTS is a multi-user time-sharing operating system developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC, now part of Hewlett-Packard) for the PDP-11 series of 16-bit minicomputers.
See ASCII and RSTS/E
RSX-11
RSX-11 is a discontinued family of multi-user real-time operating systems for PDP-11 computers created by Digital Equipment Corporation.
See ASCII and RSX-11
RT-11
RT-11 (Real-time 11) is a discontinued small, low-end, single-user real-time operating system for the full line of Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-11 16-bit computers.
See ASCII and RT-11
S
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
See ASCII and S
S&P Global
S&P Global Inc. (prior to April 2016 McGraw Hill Financial, Inc., and prior to 2013 The McGraw–Hill Companies, Inc.) is an American publicly traded corporation headquartered in Manhattan, New York City.
Scientific American
Scientific American, informally abbreviated SciAm or sometimes SA, is an American popular science magazine.
See ASCII and Scientific American
Semicolon
The semicolon (or semi-colon) is a symbol commonly used as orthographic punctuation.
Semigraphics
Text-based semigraphics, pseudographics, or character graphics is a primitive method used in early text mode video hardware to emulate raster graphics without having to implement the logic for such a display mode. ASCII and semigraphics are character sets.
Sharp MZ character set
Sharp MZ character sets are character sets made by Sharp Corporation for Sharp MZ computers. ASCII and Sharp MZ character set are character sets.
See ASCII and Sharp MZ character set
Shell (computing)
In computing, a shell is a computer program that exposes an operating system's services to a human user or other programs.
See ASCII and Shell (computing)
Shift key
The Shift key is a modifier key on a keyboard, used to type capital letters and other alternate "upper" characters.
Shift Out and Shift In characters
Shift Out (SO) and Shift In (SI) are ASCII control characters 14 and 15, respectively (0x0E and 0x0F).
See ASCII and Shift Out and Shift In characters
Sholes and Glidden typewriter
The Sholes and Glidden typewriter (also known as the Remington No. 1) was the first commercially successful typewriter.
See ASCII and Sholes and Glidden typewriter
Six-bit character code
A six-bit character code is a character encoding designed for use on computers with word lengths a multiple of 6. ASCII and six-bit character code are character encoding.
See ASCII and Six-bit character code
Slash (punctuation)
The slash is the oblique slanting line punctuation mark.
See ASCII and Slash (punctuation)
Software flow control
Software flow control is a method of flow control used in computer data links, especially RS-232 serial.
See ASCII and Software flow control
Sorting algorithm
In computer science, a sorting algorithm is an algorithm that puts elements of a list into an order.
See ASCII and Sorting algorithm
Space (punctuation)
In writing, a space is a blank area that separates words, sentences, syllables (in syllabification) and other written or printed glyphs (characters).
See ASCII and Space (punctuation)
Sprite (computer graphics)
In computer graphics, a sprite is a two-dimensional bitmap that is integrated into a larger scene, most often in a 2D video game.
See ASCII and Sprite (computer graphics)
Standardization
Standardization (American English) or standardisation (British English) is the process of implementing and developing technical standards based on the consensus of different parties that include firms, users, interest groups, standards organizations and governments.
String (computer science)
In computer programming, a string is traditionally a sequence of characters, either as a literal constant or as some kind of variable. ASCII and string (computer science) are character encoding.
See ASCII and String (computer science)
Substitute character
In computer data, a substitute character (␚) is a control character that is used to pad transmitted data in order to send it in blocks of fixed size, or to stand in place of a character that is recognized to be invalid, erroneous or unrepresentable on a given device.
See ASCII and Substitute character
T
T, or t, is the twentieth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
See ASCII and T
Tab key
The tab key (abbreviation of tabulator key or tabular key) on a keyboard is used to advance the cursor to the next tab stop.
TECO (text editor)
TECO, short for Text Editor & Corrector,"A powerful and sophisticated text editor, TECO (Text Editor and Corrector)...
See ASCII and TECO (text editor)
Telecommunications equipment
Telecommunications equipment (also telecoms equipment or communications equipment) is a type of hardware which is used for the purposes of telecommunications.
See ASCII and Telecommunications equipment
Telegraph code
A telegraph code is one of the character encodings used to transmit information by telegraphy.
Teleprinter
A teleprinter (teletypewriter, teletype or TTY) is an electromechanical device that can be used to send and receive typed messages through various communications channels, in both point-to-point and point-to-multipoint configurations.
Teletext character set
This article covers technical details of the character encoding system defined by ETS 300 706 of the ETSI, a standard for World System Teletext, and used for the Viewdata and Teletext variants of Videotex in Europe. ASCII and Teletext character set are character sets.
See ASCII and Teletext character set
Teletype Corporation
The Teletype Corporation, a part of American Telephone and Telegraph Company's Western Electric manufacturing arm since 1930, came into being in 1928 when the Morkrum-Kleinschmidt Company changed its name to the name of its trademark equipment.
See ASCII and Teletype Corporation
Teletype Model 33
The Teletype Model 33 is an electromechanical teleprinter designed for light-duty office use.
See ASCII and Teletype Model 33
Telex
Telex is a telecommunication service that provides text-based message exchange over the circuits of the public switched telephone network or by private lines.
See ASCII and Telex
Telnet
Telnet (short for "teletype network") is a client/server application protocol that provides access to virtual terminals of remote systems on local area networks or the Internet.
See ASCII and Telnet
TENEX (operating system)
TENEX is an operating system developed in 1969 by BBN for the PDP-10, which later formed the basis for Digital Equipment Corporation's TOPS-20 operating system.
See ASCII and TENEX (operating system)
Text editor
A text editor is a type of computer program that edits plain text.
Three-letter acronym
A three-letter acronym (TLA), or three-letter abbreviation, is as the phrase suggests an abbreviation consisting of three letters.
See ASCII and Three-letter acronym
Tilde
The tilde or, is a grapheme with a number of uses.
See ASCII and Tilde
TOPS-10
TOPS-10 System (Timesharing / Total Operating System-10) is a discontinued operating system from Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) for the PDP-10 (or DECsystem-10) mainframe computer family.
TRS-80
The TRS-80 Micro Computer System (TRS-80, later renamed the Model I to distinguish it from successors) is a desktop microcomputer launched in 1977 and sold by Tandy Corporation through their Radio Shack stores.
See ASCII and TRS-80
Typewriter
A typewriter is a mechanical or electromechanical machine for typing characters.
U
U, or u, is the twenty-first letter and the fifth vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet and the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
See ASCII and U
Underscore
An underscore or underline is a line drawn under a segment of text.
Unicode
Unicode, formally The Unicode Standard, is a text encoding standard maintained by the Unicode Consortium designed to support the use of text in all of the world's writing systems that can be digitized. ASCII and Unicode are character encoding.
Unicode Consortium
The Unicode Consortium (legally Unicode, Inc.) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization incorporated and based in Mountain View, California, U.S. Its primary purpose is to maintain and publish the Unicode Standard which was developed with the intention of replacing existing character encoding schemes that are limited in size and scope, and are incompatible with multilingual environments.
See ASCII and Unicode Consortium
United States Secretary of Commerce
The United States secretary of commerce (SecCom) is the head of the United States Department of Commerce.
See ASCII and United States Secretary of Commerce
Universal Coded Character Set
The Universal Coded Character Set (UCS, Unicode) is a standard set of characters defined by the international standard ISO/IEC 10646, Information technology — Universal Coded Character Set (UCS) (plus amendments to that standard), which is the basis of many character encodings, improving as characters from previously unrepresented typing systems are added. ASCII and Universal Coded Character Set are character sets.
See ASCII and Universal Coded Character Set
Unix
Unix (trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multi-user computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, whose development started in 1969 at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others.
See ASCII and Unix
Unix-like
A Unix-like (sometimes referred to as UN*X or *nix) operating system is one that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system, although not necessarily conforming to or being certified to any version of the Single UNIX Specification.
Usenet
Usenet, USENET, or, "in full", User's Network, is a worldwide distributed discussion system available on computers.
See ASCII and Usenet
UTF-16
UTF-16 (16-bit Unicode Transformation Format) is a character encoding capable of encoding all 1,112,064 valid code points of Unicode (in fact this number of code points is dictated by the design of UTF-16). ASCII and UTF-16 are character encoding.
See ASCII and UTF-16
UTF-32
UTF-32 (32-bit Unicode Transformation Format) is a fixed-length encoding used to encode Unicode code points that uses exactly 32 bits (four bytes) per code point (but a number of leading bits must be zero as there are far fewer than 232 Unicode code points, needing actually only 21 bits). ASCII and UTF-32 are character encoding.
See ASCII and UTF-32
UTF-8
UTF-8 is a variable-length character encoding standard used for electronic communication. ASCII and UTF-8 are character encoding.
See ASCII and UTF-8
V
V, or v, is the twenty-second letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
See ASCII and V
Vertical bar
The vertical bar,, is a glyph with various uses in mathematics, computing, and typography.
Vi (text editor)
vi (pronounced as distinct letters) is a screen-oriented text editor originally created for the Unix operating system.
See ASCII and Vi (text editor)
VISCII
VISCII is an unofficially-defined modified ASCII character encoding for using the Vietnamese language with computers. ASCII and VISCII are character sets.
See ASCII and VISCII
VT100
The VT100 is a video terminal, introduced in August 1978 by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC).
See ASCII and VT100
VT220
The VT200 series is a family of computer terminals introduced by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in November 1983.
See ASCII and VT220
W
W, or w, is the twenty-third letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
See ASCII and W
Whitespace character
A whitespace character is a character data element that represents white space when text is rendered for display by a computer. ASCII and whitespace character are character encoding.
See ASCII and Whitespace character
Wiley (publisher)
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., commonly known as Wiley, is an American multinational publishing company that focuses on academic publishing and instructional materials.
See ASCII and Wiley (publisher)
Window (computing)
In computing, a window is a graphical control element.
See ASCII and Window (computing)
Windows code page
Windows code pages are sets of characters or code pages (known as character encodings in other operating systems) used in Microsoft Windows from the 1980s and 1990s.
See ASCII and Windows code page
Windows-1252
Windows-1252 or CP-1252 (Windows code page 1252) is a legacy single-byte character encoding that is used by default (as the "ANSI code page") in Microsoft Windows throughout the Americas, Western Europe, Oceania, and much of Africa.
Won sign
The won sign, is a currency symbol.
World System Teletext
World System Teletext (WST) is the name of a standard for encoding and displaying teletext information, which is used as the standard for teletext throughout Europe today.
See ASCII and World System Teletext
World Wide Web
The World Wide Web (WWW or simply the Web) is an information system that enables content sharing over the Internet through user-friendly ways meant to appeal to users beyond IT specialists and hobbyists.
World Wide Web Consortium
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web.
See ASCII and World Wide Web Consortium
X
X, or x, is the twenty-fourth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
See ASCII and X
X-SAMPA
The Extended Speech Assessment Methods Phonetic Alphabet (X-SAMPA) is a variant of SAMPA developed in 1995 by John C. Wells, professor of phonetics at University College London.
Y
Y, or y, is the twenty-fifth and penultimate letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
See ASCII and Y
Yen and yuan sign
The yen and yuan sign (¥) is a currency sign used for the Japanese yen and the Chinese yuan currencies when writing in Latin scripts.
See ASCII and Yen and yuan sign
YUSCII
YUSCII is an informal name for several JUS standards for 7-bit character encoding. ASCII and YUSCII are character sets.
See ASCII and YUSCII
Z
Z, or z, is the twenty-sixth and last letter of the Latin alphabet.
See ASCII and Z
Z shell
The Z shell (Zsh) is a Unix shell that can be used as an interactive login shell and as a command interpreter for shell scripting.
0
0 (zero) is a number representing an empty quantity.
See ASCII and 0
1
1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity.
See ASCII and 1
12-bit computing
Before the widespread 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.
See ASCII and 12-bit computing
16-bit computing
16-bit microcomputers are microcomputers that use 16-bit microprocessors.
See ASCII and 16-bit computing
18-bit computing
Eighteen binary digits have (1000000 octal, 40000 hexadecimal) distinct combinations.
See ASCII and 18-bit computing
2
2 (two) is a number, numeral and digit.
See ASCII and 2
3
3 (three) is a number, numeral and digit.
See ASCII and 3
32-bit computing
In computer architecture, 32-bit computing refers to computer systems with a processor, memory, and other major system components that operate on data in 32-bit units.
See ASCII and 32-bit computing
3568 ASCII
3568 ASCII, provisional designation, is a dark background asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter.
36-bit computing
36-bit computers were popular in the early mainframe computer era from the 1950s through the early 1970s.
See ASCII and 36-bit computing
4
4 (four) is a number, numeral and digit.
See ASCII and 4
5
5 (five) is a number, numeral and digit.
See ASCII and 5
6
6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7.
See ASCII and 6
64-bit computing
In computer architecture, 64-bit integers, memory addresses, or other data units are those that are 64 bits wide.
See ASCII and 64-bit computing
7
7 (seven) is the natural number following 6 and preceding 8.
See ASCII and 7
8
8 (eight) is the natural number following 7 and preceding 9.
See ASCII and 8
8-bit computing
In computer architecture, 8-bit integers or other data units are those that are 8 bits wide (1 octet).
9
9 (nine) is the natural number following and preceding.
See ASCII and 9
9-track tape
9-track tape is a format for magnetic-tape data storage, introduced with the IBM System/360 in 1964.
See also
American National Standards Institute standards
- ANSI 834 Enrollment Implementation Format
- ANSI A300
- ANSI ASC X9.95 Standard
- ANSI C
- ANSI S1.1-1994
- ANSI T1.413 Issue 2
- ANSI Z535
- ANSI device numbers
- ANSI escape code
- ANSI/ASA S1.1-2013
- ANSI/ASIS PSC.1-2012
- ANSI/ASIS PSC.4-2013
- ANSI/ASME Y14.1
- ANSI/ISA-95
- ASCII
- CEA-909
- Computer Graphics Metafile
- DMX512
- EIA-649 National Consensus Standard for Configuration Management
- FPGA Mezzanine Card
- Full BASIC
- Health Level 7
- ISA-88
- IT8
- Information schema
- Minimal BASIC
- PHIGS
- RDM (lighting)
- SCSI / ATA Translation
- SCTE-35
- Serial Storage Architecture
- Storage Management Initiative – Specification
- VXS
Computer-related introductions in 1963
- ASCII
- Access method
- Cassette tape
- DECtape
- Elliott 503
- Ferranti-Packard 6000
- GE-600 series
- Honeywell 200
- IBM 1443
- PDP-5
- Z25 (computer)
Latin-script representations
- ASCII
- Boston line letter
- Braille
- Burmese respelling of the English alphabet
- Chinese respelling of the English alphabet
- Code letters
- English Braille
- Flag semaphore
- Hebraization of English
- International maritime signal flags
- Irish manual alphabet
- Leet
- Moon type
- Morse code
- NATO phonetic alphabet
- Optical telegraph
- Portuguese manual alphabet
- Vibratese
- Z flag
Presentation layer protocols
- ASCII
- Apple Filing Protocol
- Character encoding
- Character sets
- Data compression
- List of information system character sets
- MIME
- NAPLPS
- NetWare Core Protocol
- Network Data Representation
- People Finder Interchange Format
- SDEP
- Shannon's source coding theorem
- Signaling compression
- Transport Layer Security
- XML
References
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, Case sensitivity, Cent (currency), Character (computing), Character encoding, Character encodings in HTML, CNN, Code page 1104, Code page 437, Code point, Collation, Colon (punctuation), Comma, Commodore International, Communications of the ACM, Computer (magazine), Computer terminal, Control character, Control key, Control Pictures, Control-C, CP/M, CRC Press, D, Data communication, Data stream, De facto standard, Decimal, Delete character, Delete key, Digital data, Digital Equipment Corporation, Digital Research, Digraphs and trigraphs (programming), Dollar sign, E, EBCDIC, Electronics World, Emoticon, End of message, End-of-file, End-of-Text character, End-of-Transmission character, End-of-Transmission-Block character, English alphabet, English language, English terms with diacritical marks, Enquiry character, Equals sign, Error detection and correction, Escape character, Escape sequence, Escape sequences in C, Exclamation mark, Exit (system call), Extended ASCII, F, Federal government of the United States, Fieldata, File Transfer Protocol, Flow control (data), Forward compatibility, Full stop, G, Gary Kildall, GNU Compiler Collection, GNU Emacs, Grapheme, Graphical user interface, Greater-than sign, H, Hamming distance, Hexadecimal, Hugh McGregor Ross, Hyphen-minus, I, IBM, IBM 2260, IBM Personal Computer, IBM Selectric, Ido, Indian Script Code for Information Interchange, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Interlingua, International Committee for Information Technology Standards, International Organization for Standardization, Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, Internet Engineering Task Force, Interpunct, ISO 2047, ISO/IEC 2022, ISO/IEC 646, ISO/IEC 8859, ISO/IEC 8859-1, ITU-T, J, Jalapeño, Jargon File, Java (programming language), Joint Computer Conference, K, Kaypro, KOI-8, KornShell, L, Less-than sign, Letter case, List of information system character sets, List of Unicode characters, Luther H. Hodges, Lyndon B. Johnson, M, Mac operating systems, Mac OS Roman, MacOS, Malay language, Markup language, Metadata, Microsoft Windows, Mnemonic, Model M keyboard, MS-DOS, Multics, Multinational Character Set, N, Natural number, Negation, Newline, Nibble, Null character, Null-terminated string, Number sign, Numerical digit, O, O'Reilly Media, Octal, Octet (computing), Operating system, OS/360 and successors, OS/8, Out-of-band data, P, Page break, Parity bit, PCMag, Percent sign, Peripheral, Perl, PETSCII, Plain text, Plus and minus signs, PostScript, PostScript Standard Encoding, Pound sign, Pound sterling, Printer (computing), Proper noun, Punched card, Punched tape, Punctuation, Q, Question mark, Quotation mark, R, Résumé, Reverse video, Rotokas alphabet, RSTS/E, RSX-11, RT-11, S, S&P Global, Scientific American, Semicolon, Semigraphics, Sharp MZ character set, Shell (computing), Shift key, Shift Out and Shift In characters, Sholes and Glidden typewriter, Six-bit character code, Slash (punctuation), Software flow control, Sorting algorithm, Space (punctuation), Sprite (computer graphics), Standardization, String (computer science), Substitute character, T, Tab key, TECO (text editor), Telecommunications equipment, Telegraph code, Teleprinter, Teletext character set, Teletype Corporation, Teletype Model 33, Telex, Telnet, TENEX (operating system), Text editor, Three-letter acronym, Tilde, TOPS-10, TRS-80, Typewriter, U, Underscore, Unicode, Unicode Consortium, United States Secretary of Commerce, Universal Coded Character Set, Unix, Unix-like, Usenet, UTF-16, UTF-32, UTF-8, V, Vertical bar, Vi (text editor), VISCII, VT100, VT220, W, Whitespace character, Wiley (publisher), Window (computing), Windows code page, Windows-1252, Won sign, World System Teletext, World Wide Web, World Wide Web Consortium, X, X-SAMPA, Y, Yen and yuan sign, YUSCII, Z, Z shell, 0, 1, 12-bit computing, 16-bit computing, 18-bit computing, 2, 3, 32-bit computing, 3568 ASCII, 36-bit computing, 4, 5, 6, 64-bit computing, 7, 8, 8-bit computing, 9, 9-track tape.