On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 08:49:07AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I also remember when one had to put two STOP bits at the end of each ASCII > character transmitted to allow the print ball time to return to its > resting position in advance of the next character > Larry Owens > >
Yeah, and it only took 5 bits per character (baudot) instead of 7 for ASCII or now however-many for unicode. Progress. I wonder which would take less room on disk: 1000 emails in baudot or in ascii after gziping? Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
