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It interesting to consider that both Japan and China might have been prevent from ever being first with general purpose computers. ASCII, and other encoding sch
by mrweasel 2y ago
It interesting to consider that both Japan and China might have been prevent from ever being first with general purpose computers. ASCII, and other encoding schemes, only needed to make provisions for less than 200 characters, making it possible to implement with the limited storage and memory available to early computers. The shear amount of characters in some languages, like Chinese may have served as a distraction or roadblock for early computers in the those countries.
- _xnmw 2y agoMakes you wonder what limitations of our own language and culture are preventing us from inventing certain things?
- raincole 2y agoIn an alternative history timeline it might be true. In our timeline I highly doubt whether it was the main reason why general purpose computers didn't happen first in China or Japan.