DOS‐tips

Abstract

You've probably heard of the ASCII code, but do you know what it is? ASCII (pronounced ask‐ee) is an acronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. It's a standard way of assigning unique numbers to each alphanumeric character and punctuation mark used in the English language. For example, a capital A is assigned 65 as its ASCII code. Standard coding ensures that any machine using the ASCII code will display a capital A in response to a code 65. Of course, there are other, incompatible coding schemes to accomplish the same thing (ask an IBM mainframe user about EBCDIC— another acronym, pronounced eb‐suh‐dick), but in the micro world, ASCII reigns supreme.

Citation

Bendig, M. (1987), "DOS‐tips", OCLC Micro, Vol. 3 No. 6, pp. 6-8. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb055870