Re: ASCII Consortium

From: Michael Everson (everson@indigo.ie)
Date: Sun Sep 19 1999 - 07:25:16 EDT


Ar 00:20 -0700 1999-09-15, scríobh John Wilcock:

>Wouldn't morse be classified as a variable-length ternary encoding?

I'd guess the character set is:

0 MORSE PAUSE
1 MORSE SHORT TONE
2 MORSE LONG TONE

>Anyone got a ternary computer??!

Klingons probably do.

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