Talk:Six-bit character code
Latest comment: 13 years ago by Peter Flass in topic Merge? How does this differ from BCD (6-bit)?
Merge? How does this differ from BCD (6-bit)?
BCD (6-bit) Peter Flass (talk) 13:55, 7 June 2012 (UTC)
- There are many reasons for keeping BCD (6-bit) separate from Six-bit character code (I've used it for 35 years as System engineer at Bull, and it was a milestone)
- For the same reason we do not merge EBCDIC and ASCII Seven-bit character codes (8-bit later on)
- Not to allow it to be confused with BCD..
- Six-bit character code is generic (trying to comprehend all others..among them Fieldata)
- Braille sixbit code it should go inside Six-bit character code, but may not be included in BCD (6-bit)
- It was the first Six-bit character code.. giving birth to its offsprings EBCDIC and ASCII
- Do you want to merge all 8bit code sets in one article?
- All code pages have separate articles.. Do you want to merge all code pages in one article?
(to be continued)--Mcapdevila (talk) 16:56, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
- Fair 'nuff. Peter Flass (talk) 20:54, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
- On the other hand, as far as I can see there are no articles Seven-bit character code or Eight-bit character code, just six-bit. The other major code pages each have their own article. I recently added an article on IBM Transcode, which is a different 6-bit code and there are probably others. Do we need a generic article for six-bit codes?Peter Flass (talk) 12:42, 19 June 2012 (UTC)