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In the early days of computing ASCII was not universally used and often character spaces were less than 8 bits and lacked lower-case, or were mixed charsets lik
by fallous 2y ago
In the early days of computing ASCII was not universally used and often character spaces were less than 8 bits and lacked lower-case, or were mixed charsets like PETSCII that had upper-case letters and the extra charspace were filled with graphics. For a text-only system you could store the doc with 6 bit chars since you could ignore the upper charspace populated with graphics.