From: philip chastney (philip_chastney@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Jan 06 2010 - 14:17:45 CST
it wasn't just the special characters, eitherΒ --Β a policy of "visual fidelity" meant that 'F' overstruck with 'L' would be seen by the mainframe as 'E', because that is what the terminal user would see on their printed page
Backspace does not provide a very sound basis for Ascii Art, however, because it is sometimes destructive and sometimes notΒ
and, as happened with APL, video terminals had to interpret the incoming
stream, to ensure that certain 3-byte sequences were correctly mapped to the
right element in the character ROM
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