ASCII Computing.
(ˈæskɪ)
[Acronym, f. the initial letters of American Standard Code for Information Interchange.]
A standard seven-bit character code by which information is stored and transmitted in a computer or a data transmission system.
| 1963 Mag. Standards (Amer. Standards Assoc.) Aug. 236/1 The American Standard Code for Information Exchange (ASCII), X3.4—1963, has been designed to serve this purpose. Ibid. 239/2 The ASCII provides the basic standard on which to base plans for automatic information processing systems. 1967 D. H. Hamsher Communication Syst. Engin. Handbk. ii. 18 Through the use of the shift and control keys in conjunction with the other keys, all 128 code combinations of ASCII can be generated. 1978 Personal Computer World Dec. 20/2 ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is a code that was originally devised for serial communications to supersede Morse code. Its advantage over Morse code is that all its characters are of fixed length (seven bits) while the Morse code is..variable. 1983 Daily Tel. 22 Aug. 6/5 The national electronic mail service, Telecom Gold, accepts only the basic ASCII character fount. |