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I wonder if that was related to "\n", or if the synthesizer intentionally mapped nonprinting characters to sounds (that would seem to make the command set more
by pak 16y ago
I wonder if that was related to "\n", or if the synthesizer intentionally mapped nonprinting characters to sounds (that would seem to make the command set more complicated than necessary, but bytes were precious then so what do I know.)
- etfb 16y agoCould have been that, but I think it was just a coincidence. In CBMSCII, pronounced "ka-BOOM-ski", which was the warped and bizarre version of ASCII used on the Commodore machines, the end-of-line character was 13, aka Ctrl+M, not the C/Unixy Ctrl+J. From dim, distant memory, every one of the 255 characters had a sound mapped to it, though surely I'm misremembering since there are only about 40 distinct phonemes in English. I just remembered that it was called SAM, and here's the Wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Automatic_Mouth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Automatic_Mouth Ah, memories...