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I've been in IT for decades but never knew that ctrl was (as easy as) masking some bits.
by Cthulhu_ 8mo ago
I've been in IT for decades but never knew that ctrl was (as easy as) masking some bits.
- muyuu 8mo agoYou can go back maybe 2 decades without this being very relevant, but not 3 given the low level scope that was expected in CS and EE back then.
- kazinator 8mo agoI learned about from 6502 machine language programming, from some example that did a simple bit manipulation to switch lower case to upper case. From that it became obvious that ASCII is divided into four banks of 32.