ascii
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1. ascii - Noun
3. Ascii - Proper noun
Meaning
Alt. of Ascians
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Added by Phil Petit, (one of the above-mentioned Foonly designers): The word "foonly" appeared one day as I was debugging my assembler, and typing in random nonsense to test the "ASCII" pseudo op.
All entries in the ASCII table below code 32 (technically the C0 control code set) are of this kind, including CR and LF used to separate lines of text.
All ASCII codes stored within an eight-bit byte had nonnegative values on systems such as the PDP-11 that treated bytes as signed quantities.
An alternate scheme devised by Frans Velthuis (see § Text in ASCII) allows for typing without diacritics using plain ASCII methods, but is arguably less readable than the standard IAST system, which uses diacritical marks.
Although these encodings are sometimes referred to as ASCII, true ASCII is defined strictly only by the ANSI standard.
Among the first Amiga ASCII art groups were ART, Epsilon Design, Upper Class, Unreal (later known as "DeZign").