On Tuesday 06 December 2005 04:35, Mike McCarty wrote: > Kent West wrote: > > Mike McCarty wrote: > >>Kent West wrote: > > [that ASCII is 8 bits] ASCII *is* 7-bits.
To quote from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascii "ASCII is, strictly, a seven-bit code, meaning that it uses the bit patterns representable with seven binary digits (a range of 0 to 127 decimal) to represent character information. At the time ASCII was introduced, many computers dealt with eight-bit groups (bytes or, more specifically, octets) as the smallest unit of information; the eighth bit was commonly used as a parity bit..." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
