Re: ASCII Consortium

From: Paul Keinanen (keinanen@sci.fi)
Date: Sun Sep 19 1999 - 11:26:22 EDT


On Wed, 15 Sep 1999 00:20:05 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:

>On Tue, 14 Sep 1999 10:56:37 -0700 (PDT), schererm@us.ibm.com wrote:
>> if we count down in the bits for the encoding (baudot, braille), then how about
>> morse code? does that count as a single-bit encoding?
>> :-)
>
>Wouldn't morse be classified as a variable-length ternary encoding?

More like a 4 or 5 level code with the following discrete states:

1 unit mark (dot)
3 unit mark (dash)
1 unit space (time between elements within a character)
3 unit space (time between characters)
7 unit space (time between words)

Paul
   



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