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Why do the RS and GS characters get ignored so much? I have only seen them used in symbols on parts labels of one of the big 3 automakers.
by hhh 3y ago
Why do the RS and GS characters get ignored so much? I have only seen them used in symbols on parts labels of one of the big 3 automakers.
- hakfoo 3y agoA lot of payment processor APIs use FS and GS intensely; I suspect it was an lighter way to serialize structured data when your typical card-payment terminal was an 8-bit MCU with a few kilobytes of memory and a dial-up modem.