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What ASCII Should Have Been

Started byQuadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca>
First post2020-06-01 19:25 -0700
Last post2020-07-05 16:35 -0700
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  What ASCII Should Have Been Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-06-01 19:25 -0700
    Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2020-06-02 07:49 +0100
      Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-06-02 00:26 -0700
        Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-06-02 00:35 -0700
    Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2020-06-02 08:18 +0000
      Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-06-02 02:45 -0700
        Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-06-02 02:57 -0700
        Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2020-06-02 10:06 +0000
        Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2020-06-02 11:52 +0000
        Re: What ASCII Should Have Been songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2020-06-02 12:18 -0400
    Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2020-06-02 11:31 +0100
      Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-06-02 05:05 -0700
        Re: What ASCII Should Have Been daphne@panix.com (Daphne Eftychia Arthur) - 2020-06-03 18:09 +0000
          Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-06-03 14:01 -0700
          Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-06-03 17:54 -0700
            Re: What ASCII actually is John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2020-06-04 02:11 +0000
            Re: What ASCII Should Have Been daphne@panix.com (Daphne Eftychia Arthur) - 2020-06-04 03:05 +0000
              Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-06-03 20:26 -0700
                Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-06-04 07:06 -0700
              Re: What ASCII Should Have Been daphne@panix.com (Daphne Eftychia Arthur) - 2020-06-04 03:27 +0000
                Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-06-03 20:31 -0700
                  Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-06-03 20:41 -0700
          Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2020-06-06 02:22 +0800
            Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-06-05 11:33 -0700
              Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2020-06-06 13:58 +0800
                Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-06-06 11:10 -0700
    Re: What ASCII Should Have Been robin.vowels@gmail.com - 2020-06-02 19:46 -0700
      Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-06-02 23:24 -0700
        Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-06-02 23:36 -0700
        Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2020-06-03 17:22 +0000
          Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-06-03 10:33 -0700
            Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2020-06-03 20:30 +0000
              Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-06-03 13:40 -0700
                Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-06-04 07:06 -0700
                  Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2020-06-04 16:59 +0000
              Re: What ASCII Should Have Been J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-06-03 19:50 -0400
                Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-06-03 17:47 -0700
                Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-06-04 07:06 -0700
              Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2020-06-03 20:53 -0300
                Re: What ASCII Should Have Been John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2020-06-04 00:08 +0000
                Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Gerard Schildberger <gerard46@rrt.net> - 2020-06-03 17:10 -0700
                Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-06-03 17:48 -0700
                  Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2020-06-04 03:11 -0300
                    Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-06-04 01:18 -0700
                      Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2020-06-05 03:50 -0300
              Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-06-04 07:06 -0700
                Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-06-05 00:44 -0700
                  Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-06-05 07:53 -0700
                    Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-06-05 08:04 -0700
                      Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-06-05 10:03 -0700
                    Re: What ASCII Should Have Been JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> - 2020-06-05 11:05 -0500
                      Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-06-05 09:27 -0700
                        Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Dallas <dallas@texas.usa> - 2020-06-05 11:45 -0500
                          Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-06-05 09:55 -0700
                            Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-06-05 10:16 -0700
                            Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2020-06-05 18:23 +0100
                          Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-06-05 10:03 -0700
                            Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Niklas Karlsson <anksil@yahoo.se> - 2020-06-07 15:05 +0000
                              Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-06-07 09:28 -0700
                                Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Niklas Karlsson <anksil@yahoo.se> - 2020-06-07 19:56 +0000
                                  Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Dallas <dallas@texas.usa> - 2020-06-07 16:15 -0500
                          Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2020-06-05 17:31 +0000
                            Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-06-05 11:24 -0700
                          Re: What ASCII Should Have Been robin.vowels@gmail.com - 2020-06-05 15:02 -0700
                            Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Dallas <dallas@texas.usa> - 2020-06-05 17:40 -0500
                          Re: What ASCII Should Have Been John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2020-06-06 00:10 +0000
                            Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Dallas <dallas@texas.usa> - 2020-06-05 19:44 -0500
                              Re: What ASCII Should Have Been John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2020-06-06 01:54 +0000
                        Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-06-05 10:03 -0700
                          Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-06-05 11:57 -0700
                        Re: What ASCII Should Have Been JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> - 2020-06-06 11:15 -0500
                          Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-06-06 11:10 -0700
                            Re: What ASCII Should Have Been JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> - 2020-06-06 16:14 -0500
                              Brest U-boat pens (was: Re: What ASCII Should Have Been "Kerr-Mudd,John" <notsaying@invalid.org> - 2020-06-07 10:01 +0000
                                Re: Brest U-boat pens (was: Re: What ASCII Should Have Been "Kerr-Mudd,John" <notsaying@invalid.org> - 2020-06-07 17:58 +0000
                                  Re: Brest U-boat pens Dallas <dallas@texas.usa> - 2020-06-07 15:54 -0500
                          Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Joy Beeson <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> - 2020-06-06 19:12 -0400
                            Re: What ASCII Should Have Been J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-06-06 19:40 -0400
                              Re: What ASCII Should Have Been John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2020-06-07 01:22 +0000
                                Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Dallas <dallas@texas.usa> - 2020-06-06 22:22 -0500
                                Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Andy Walker <anw@cuboid.co.uk> - 2020-06-07 10:46 +0100
                                Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-06-07 07:58 -0700
                                Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2020-06-07 15:37 +0000
                              Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Gareth Evans <headstone255@yahoo.com> - 2020-06-07 21:52 +0100
                            Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-06-06 19:44 -0700
                              Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Alfred Falk <aefalk@telus.net> - 2020-06-07 03:11 +0000
      Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-06-02 23:25 -0700
      Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-06-02 23:27 -0700
      Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Andy Walker <anw@cuboid.co.uk> - 2020-06-03 10:40 +0100
        Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Andy Walker <anw@cuboid.co.uk> - 2020-06-03 12:05 +0100
        Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2020-06-03 13:08 +0000
          Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Andy Walker <anw@cuboid.co.uk> - 2020-06-03 15:47 +0100
            Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2020-06-03 17:20 +0000
              Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2020-06-03 17:26 +0000
                Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-06-03 10:35 -0700
                  Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2020-06-03 18:03 +0000
              Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Andy Walker <anw@cuboid.co.uk> - 2020-06-03 19:27 +0100
                Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2020-06-03 18:38 +0000
                  Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-06-03 13:41 -0700
                    Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2020-06-03 21:15 +0000
                  Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Andy Walker <anw@cuboid.co.uk> - 2020-06-04 00:25 +0100
                    Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-06-04 07:06 -0700
            Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-06-04 07:06 -0700
              Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2020-06-05 18:27 +0000
                Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-06-05 12:00 -0700
                  Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2020-06-07 16:52 +0000
                    Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-06-07 10:21 -0700
                    Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-06-07 11:03 -0700
                      Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2020-06-07 19:08 +0000
                        Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-06-07 13:00 -0700
                        Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-06-07 16:09 -0700
                          Re: What ASCII Should Have Been usenet@only.tnx (Questor) - 2020-06-09 09:18 +0000
                            Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-06-09 07:22 -0700
                              Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-06-09 11:51 -0700
                              Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2020-06-09 15:40 -0400
                                Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-06-09 16:25 -0700
                                  Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2020-06-10 06:52 +0000
                                    Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2020-06-10 10:22 +0000
                                    Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2020-06-10 14:26 -0400
                                      Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2020-06-10 20:54 +0000
                                    Re: What the DEC-20 was, not ASCII Should Have Been John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2020-06-10 18:30 +0000
                                      Re: What the DEC-20 was, not ASCII Should Have Been Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2020-06-11 19:01 -0400
                                    Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2020-06-10 19:35 +0000
                                      Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2020-06-11 12:59 +0000
                                        Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-06-11 07:59 -0700
                                          Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2020-06-11 17:31 +0000
                                            Re: BATTERY RADIOS & STIRLING MOTORS robin.vowels@gmail.com - 2020-06-11 21:29 -0700
                                              Re: BATTERY RADIOS & STIRLING MOTORS Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2020-06-12 07:04 +0000
                                              Re: BATTERY RADIOS & STIRLING MOTORS Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2020-06-12 09:06 +0000
                                                Re: BATTERY RADIOS & STIRLING MOTORS robin.vowels@gmail.com - 2020-06-12 05:32 -0700
                                                Re: BATTERY RADIOS & STIRLING MOTORS Gareth Evans <headstone255@yahoo.com> - 2020-06-12 14:11 +0100
                                                  Re: BATTERY RADIOS & STIRLING MOTORS => Alfred Morgan ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2020-06-12 13:41 +0000
                                                    Re: BATTERY RADIOS & STIRLING MOTORS => Alfred Morgan Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2020-06-12 14:33 +0000
                                                      Re: BATTERY RADIOS & STIRLING MOTORS => Alfred Morgan Gareth Evans <headstone255@yahoo.com> - 2020-06-12 16:14 +0100
                                                    Re: BATTERY RADIOS & STIRLING MOTORS => Alfred Morgan Gareth Evans <headstone255@yahoo.com> - 2020-06-12 16:07 +0100
                                                      Re: BATTERY RADIOS & STIRLING MOTORS => Alfred Morgan ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2020-06-12 16:59 +0000
                                                      Re: BATTERY RADIOS & STIRLING MOTORS => Alfred Morgan Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-06-12 10:31 -0700
                                                        Re: BATTERY RADIOS & STIRLING MOTORS => Alfred Morgan Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2020-06-12 20:33 +0100
                                                      Fun with X-raays (thread drift from  BATTERY RADIOS & STIRLING...) Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2020-06-12 17:09 -0300
                                                        Re: Fun with X-raays (thread drift from  BATTERY RADIOS & STIRLING...) Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-06-12 14:12 -0700
                                                          Re: Fun with X-raays (thread drift from  BATTERY RADIOS & STIRLING...) J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-06-12 19:54 -0400
                                                            Re: Fun with X-raays (thread drift from  BATTERY RADIOS & STIRLING...) J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-06-12 19:54 -0400
                                                          Re: Fun with X-raays (thread drift from  BATTERY RADIOS & STIRLING...) Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2020-06-13 02:57 -0300
                                                            Re: Fun with X-raays (thread drift from  BATTERY RADIOS & STIRLING...) J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-06-13 02:15 -0400
                                                        Re: Fun with X-raays (thread drift from BATTERY RADIOS & STIRLING...) Gareth Evans <headstone255@yahoo.com> - 2020-06-14 13:54 +0100
                                                          Re: Fun with X-raays (thread drift from BATTERY RADIOS & STIRLING...) Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-06-14 15:30 -0700
                                                            Re: Fun with X-raays (thread drift from BATTERY RADIOS & STIRLING...) Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2020-06-14 22:57 -0300
                                                            Re: Fun with X-raays (thread drift from BATTERY RADIOS & STIRLING...) JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> - 2020-06-14 21:00 -0500
                                                              Re: Fun with X-rays robin.vowels@gmail.com - 2020-06-14 21:12 -0700
                                                                Re: Fun with X-rays JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> - 2020-06-15 10:05 -0500
                                                                  Re: Fun with X-rays Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-06-15 10:05 -0700
                                                                    Re: Fun with X-rays Dallas <dallas@texas.usa> - 2020-06-15 13:26 -0500
                                                                      Re: Fun with X-rays John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2020-06-15 18:46 +0000
                                                                        Re: Fun with X-rays J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-06-15 19:30 -0400
                                                                          Re: Fun with X-rays Dallas <dallas@texas.usa> - 2020-06-15 20:36 -0500
                                                                            Re: Fun with X-rays J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-06-15 22:27 -0400
                                                                            Re: Fun with X-rays Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2020-06-16 06:40 +0000
                                                                Re: Radium girls, not Fun with X-rays John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2020-06-15 17:29 +0000
                                                  Re: BATTERY RADIOS & STIRLING MOTORS Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-06-12 07:49 -0700
                                                  Re: BATTERY RADIOS & STIRLING MOTORS robin.vowels@gmail.com - 2020-06-12 08:50 -0700
                                            Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Bob Martin <bob.martin@excite.com> - 2020-06-12 06:07 +0000
                                        Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Niklas Karlsson <anksil@yahoo.se> - 2020-06-14 14:50 +0000
                                          Re: What ASCII Should Have Been "Kerr-Mudd,John" <notsaying@invalid.org> - 2020-06-14 15:01 +0000
                                          Re: What ASCII Should Have Been J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-06-14 11:36 -0400
                                            Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Niklas Karlsson <anksil@yahoo.se> - 2020-06-14 18:03 +0000
                              Re: What ASCII Should Have Been usenet@only.tnx (Questor) - 2020-06-18 18:48 +0000
                            Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-06-09 07:26 -0700
                              Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2020-06-09 12:02 -0400
                                Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Dallas <dallas@texas.usa> - 2020-06-09 11:08 -0500
                                  Subject line evolution Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2020-06-09 17:33 +0100
                                  Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-06-09 11:51 -0700
                                  Re: What ASCII Should Have Been usenet@only.tnx (Questor) - 2020-06-18 18:48 +0000
                                Re: fast emulators, not What ASCII Should Have Been John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2020-06-09 17:43 +0000
                              Re: What ASCII Should Have Been usenet@only.tnx (Questor) - 2020-06-18 18:48 +0000
                            Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-06-09 07:32 -0700
                              Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-06-09 07:47 -0700
                                Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-06-09 11:51 -0700
                                Re: What ASCII Should Have Been usenet@only.tnx (Questor) - 2020-06-18 18:49 +0000
                              Re: What ASCII Should Have Been usenet@only.tnx (Questor) - 2020-06-18 18:50 +0000
                            Re: What ASCII Should Have Been John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2020-06-09 15:24 +0000
                          Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-06-09 11:51 -0700
                          Re: What ASCII Should Have Been pechter@lakewoodmicro.com () - 2020-06-16 20:55 +0000
                Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2020-06-05 21:27 +0000
                  Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Dallas <dallas@texas.usa> - 2020-06-05 16:54 -0500
                  Re: What ASCII Should Have Been scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2020-06-05 22:44 +0000
                    Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2020-06-05 23:18 +0000
          Re: What ASCII Should Have Been robin.vowels@gmail.com - 2020-06-03 16:37 -0700
            Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2020-06-04 05:23 +0000
        Re: What ASCII Should Have Been robin.vowels@gmail.com - 2020-06-03 16:35 -0700
          Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Andy Walker <anw@cuboid.co.uk> - 2020-06-04 11:31 +0100
            Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-06-04 07:05 -0700
      Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-06-04 07:06 -0700
        Re: What ASCII Should Have Been scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2020-06-04 15:23 +0000
          Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-06-04 09:38 -0700
        Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2020-06-04 17:31 +0100
          Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2020-06-09 10:25 +0100
    Re: What ASCII Should Have Been Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-07-05 16:35 -0700

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#211827

FromAndy Walker <anw@cuboid.co.uk>
Date2020-06-07 10:46 +0100
Message-ID<rbid2b$1cnu$1@gioia.aioe.org>
In reply to#211823
On 07/06/2020 02:22, John Levine wrote:
> In article <56aodfhl7gtn1d0nclk400q4e72a4ul7ds@4ax.com>,
> J. Clarke  <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> My Spanish teacher told us upfront that she was teaching us Castilian.
>>> She explained that if you spoke Castilian to a native speaker, he
>>> would think you were stuck up, but he would understand you. ...
>> Seems to be somewhat universal.  A friend of mine who grew up in an
>> Arabic-speaking household ...
> Same with German. Everyone learns formal Hochdeutch in school and
> speaks a local version at home, which outsiders often can't
> understand.

	You don't have to go that far;  it's the same with English.
"Everyone" learns a standard English, but even within England there
are mutually incomprehensible versions spoken in major cities.  The
formal versions spoken in [eg] the UK, the USA, Australia and India
would by now surely have diverged almost as far had it not been for
the unifying influence of films and TV that keeps us all abreast of
the changes.

-- 
Andy Walker,
Nottingham.

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#211829

FromPeter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com>
Date2020-06-07 07:58 -0700
Message-ID<2133755426.613234599.223841.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org>
In reply to#211823
John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> wrote:
> In article <56aodfhl7gtn1d0nclk400q4e72a4ul7ds@4ax.com>,
> J. Clarke  <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> My Spanish teacher told us upfront that she was teaching us Castilian.
>>> She explained that if you spoke Castilian to a native speaker, he
>>> would think you were stuck up, but he would understand you. ...
> 
>> Seems to be somewhat universal.  A friend of mine who grew up in an
>> Arabic-speaking household ...
> 
> Same with German. Everyone learns formal Hochdeutch in school and
> speaks a local version at home, which outsiders often can't
> understand.
> 

Or British English.

-- 
Pete

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#211831

FromThomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de>
Date2020-06-07 15:37 +0000
Message-ID<rbj1j3$t56$2@newsreader4.netcologne.de>
In reply to#211823
John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> schrieb:
> In article <56aodfhl7gtn1d0nclk400q4e72a4ul7ds@4ax.com>,
> J. Clarke  <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>My Spanish teacher told us upfront that she was teaching us Castilian.
>>>She explained that if you spoke Castilian to a native speaker, he
>>>would think you were stuck up, but he would understand you. ...
>
>>Seems to be somewhat universal.  A friend of mine who grew up in an
>>Arabic-speaking household ...
>
> Same with German. Everyone learns formal Hochdeutch in school and
> speaks a local version at home, which outsiders often can't
> understand.

Certainly not true, at least not in Germany.  There are some
dialects, but most of them are mutually understandable.  TV
has played a large role there.

Switzerland, though... the written language of Switzerland is a
variant of Hochdeutsch with smaller variations (they don't have a ß,
for example, they use ss), and some words regarding administration
are different.

Their local dialects are almost impossible for Germans to
understand, and there is enough variation in these dialects that
some people from one part of German-speaking Switzerland have
trouple understanding people from another part of German-speaking
Switzerland.

When the Swiss use messaging apps, they don't usually use the
standard spelling, but a made-up variant of their own dialect.
This can lead to people not undersanding each other's messages,
which some people find rather amusing.

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#211841

FromGareth Evans <headstone255@yahoo.com>
Date2020-06-07 21:52 +0100
Message-ID<rbjk39$3ln$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#211822
On 07/06/2020 00:40, J. Clarke wrote:
> On Sat, 06 Jun 2020 19:12:25 -0400, Joy Beeson
> <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, 06 Jun 2020 11:15:44 -0500, JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The Spanish taught was more of a
>>> formal version, as I found out when my ship docked in Spain.
>>>
>> My Spanish teacher told us upfront that she was teaching us Castilian.
>> She explained that if you spoke Castilian to a native speaker, he
>> would think you were stuck up, but he would understand you.  If you
>> spoke Mexican to a Cuban, or Argentinian to a Spaniard, he might not
>> have any idea what you meant.
>>
>> But this was over sixty years ago.
> 
> Seems to be somewhat universal.  A friend of mine who grew up in an
> Arabic-speaking household says that when she goes anywhere that isn't
> populated by Arabs, the Arabic-speaking Muslims speak very formally.
> She described it as being like in English she would say "Hey, dude,
> 'sup" and they would come back with "Dear lady it is a great honor to
> meet you, how may I be of service".
> 

I'm experiencing similar difficulties in learning Welsh,
between what is grammatically correct and what is actually said.

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#211824

FromQuadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca>
Date2020-06-06 19:44 -0700
Message-ID<9682945a-9782-4e32-b701-29f890dd1c99o@googlegroups.com>
In reply to#211821
On Saturday, June 6, 2020 at 5:12:27 PM UTC-6, Joy Beeson wrote:
> On Sat, 06 Jun 2020 11:15:44 -0500, JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > The Spanish taught was more of a
> > formal version, as I found out when my ship docked in Spain.
> > 
> My Spanish teacher told us upfront that she was teaching us Castilian.
> She explained that if you spoke Castilian to a native speaker, he
> would think you were stuck up, but he would understand you.  If you
> spoke Mexican to a Cuban, or Argentinian to a Spaniard, he might not
> have any idea what you meant.
> 
> But this was over sixty years ago.

In Canada, our English-language schools use American textbooks to teach French.

So we learn to speak French as it is spoken in the streets of Paris, and not as 
it is spoken in Quebec.

John Savard

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#211825

FromAlfred Falk <aefalk@telus.net>
Date2020-06-07 03:11 +0000
Message-ID<rbhlt0$mib$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#211824
Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> wrote in
news:9682945a-9782-4e32-b701-29f890dd1c99o@googlegroups.com: 

> On Saturday, June 6, 2020 at 5:12:27 PM UTC-6, Joy Beeson wrote:
>> On Sat, 06 Jun 2020 11:15:44 -0500, JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> > The Spanish taught was more of a
>> > formal version, as I found out when my ship docked in Spain.
>> > 
>> My Spanish teacher told us upfront that she was teaching us Castilian.
>> She explained that if you spoke Castilian to a native speaker, he
>> would think you were stuck up, but he would understand you.  If you
>> spoke Mexican to a Cuban, or Argentinian to a Spaniard, he might not
>> have any idea what you meant.
>> 
>> But this was over sixty years ago.
> 
> In Canada, our English-language schools use American textbooks to teach
> French. 
> 
> So we learn to speak French as it is spoken in the streets of Paris,
> and not as it is spoken in Quebec.

Hmm...  It was more than half a century ago, but I had 5 years of French in 
school (Manitoba).  The text books were all Canadian. The language taught 
was formal, but closer to Quebec.  (One story in the books had a family 
going to France and the children discovering differences, like "Parquer le 
car" instead of "stationer l'auto".

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#211698

FromQuadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca>
Date2020-06-02 23:25 -0700
Message-ID<bf23208b-b3b5-4e78-91ef-7801b008d9ef@googlegroups.com>
In reply to#211696
On Tuesday, June 2, 2020 at 8:46:02 PM UTC-6, robin...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Tuesday, June 2, 2020 at 12:25:12 PM UTC+10, Quadibloc wrote:

> > And yet, I allow _more_ special characters, not _less_, than we have in regular 
> > ASCII, by getting rid of all those control characters no one ever uses!

> ASCII NULL, CR, LF, FF etc are commonly used.

*Those* are control characters I kept.

John Savard

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#211699

FromQuadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca>
Date2020-06-02 23:27 -0700
Message-ID<1429496d-ba4a-42e4-9e95-ee2537d9721a@googlegroups.com>
In reply to#211696
On Tuesday, June 2, 2020 at 8:46:02 PM UTC-6, robin...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Tuesday, June 2, 2020 at 12:25:12 PM UTC+10, Quadibloc wrote:

> > Of course, Bob Bemer will hate me... I get rid of the backslash so that the 62 
> > printables, excluding space, plus the 26 lower-case letters, will fit on a 44-key 
> > keyboard... and I use that code for a 'printable character escape' that allows 
> > text to be stored easily at 6 bits per character.

> What?  ASCII is 8 bits.

ASCII is 7 bits. ISO 8859-1 is 8 bits, which is probably what you're thinking 
of.

> > I also replaced [ and ] with | and the EBCDIC logical NOT so that ASCII would 
> > get along better with EBCDIC.

> [ and ] are used by ALGOL.

That's true, but Algol uses a lot of other characters too which aren't found in 
ASCII. While they're removed from the upper-case only subset, the square 
brackets along with a lot of the other Algol characters are made available in 
the alternate shifted letters set that occupies much of the control character 
space.

John Savard

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#211703

FromAndy Walker <anw@cuboid.co.uk>
Date2020-06-03 10:40 +0100
Message-ID<rb7r76$1lfh$1@gioia.aioe.org>
In reply to#211696
On 03/06/2020 03:46, robin.vowels@gmail.com wrote:
> [ and ] are used by ALGOL.

	Yes, but at least [for the past 61 years anyway] it is not
necessary to use "[...]".  You can use "(...)" anywhere that "[...]"
is expected [and also in place of "begin ... end", "case ... esac"
and "if ... fi"].  Other languages may not be so "lucky".  OTOH,
as seen here, I like to use "[...]" for parenthetic remarks;  easier
to reach and type on my keyboard.

-- 
Andy Walker,
Nottingham.

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#211704

FromAndy Walker <anw@cuboid.co.uk>
Date2020-06-03 12:05 +0100
Message-ID<rb8069$611$1@gioia.aioe.org>
In reply to#211703
On 03/06/2020 10:40, I wrote:
>      Yes, but at least [for the past 61 years anyway] [...]

	Or even 51 years, he corrects himself hastily before anyone
notices.

-- 
Andy Walker,
Nottingham.

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#211705

FromBob Eager <news0073@eager.cx>
Date2020-06-03 13:08 +0000
Message-ID<hjplmmFi0eU3@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#211703
On Wed, 03 Jun 2020 10:40:54 +0100, Andy Walker wrote:

> On 03/06/2020 03:46, robin.vowels@gmail.com wrote:
>> [ and ] are used by ALGOL.
> 
> 	Yes, but at least [for the past 61 years anyway] it is not
> necessary to use "[...]".  You can use "(...)" anywhere that "[...]"
> is expected [and also in place of "begin ... end", "case ... esac" and
> "if ... fi"].  Other languages may not be so "lucky".  OTOH,
> as seen here, I like to use "[...]" for parenthetic remarks;  easier to
> reach and type on my keyboard.

But that is specifically ALGOL 68 - a very very different language.



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#211706

FromAndy Walker <anw@cuboid.co.uk>
Date2020-06-03 15:47 +0100
Message-ID<rb8d62$qm1$1@gioia.aioe.org>
In reply to#211705
On 03/06/2020 14:08, Bob Eager wrote:
> But that is specifically ALGOL 68 - a very very different language.

	???  Different from Algol 60, certainly;  different from Algol?
Do you feel the need to say of modern C that it is very very different
from C, meaning that modern C is not the same as K&R C?  Or that Fortran
is very very different from Fortran when referring to modern features?

-- 
Andy Walker,
Nottingham.

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#211708

FromBob Eager <news0073@eager.cx>
Date2020-06-03 17:20 +0000
Message-ID<hjq4fhFi0eU4@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#211706
On Wed, 03 Jun 2020 15:47:31 +0100, Andy Walker wrote:

> On 03/06/2020 14:08, Bob Eager wrote:
>> But that is specifically ALGOL 68 - a very very different language.
> 
> 	???  Different from Algol 60, certainly;  different from Algol?
> Do you feel the need to say of modern C that it is very very different
> from C, meaning that modern C is not the same as K&R C?  Or that Fortran
> is very very different from Fortran when referring to modern features?

ALGOL 68 bore very little relation to its predecessor. The same can not 
be said of C.

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#211710

FromThomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de>
Date2020-06-03 17:26 +0000
Message-ID<rb8mgv$qm9$3@newsreader4.netcologne.de>
In reply to#211708
Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> schrieb:
> On Wed, 03 Jun 2020 15:47:31 +0100, Andy Walker wrote:
>
>> On 03/06/2020 14:08, Bob Eager wrote:
>>> But that is specifically ALGOL 68 - a very very different language.
>> 
>> 	???  Different from Algol 60, certainly;  different from Algol?
>> Do you feel the need to say of modern C that it is very very different
>> from C, meaning that modern C is not the same as K&R C?  Or that Fortran
>> is very very different from Fortran when referring to modern features?
>
> ALGOL 68 bore very little relation to its predecessor. The same can not 
> be said of C.

I see a dangling else there...

Do you mean that C bears some resemblance to Algol 60, or to B?

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#211712

FromQuadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca>
Date2020-06-03 10:35 -0700
Message-ID<9308aa4e-c2af-4969-b84a-d01c8a16103f@googlegroups.com>
In reply to#211710
On Wednesday, June 3, 2020 at 11:26:56 AM UTC-6, Thomas Koenig wrote:

> I see a dangling else there...
> 
> Do you mean that C bears some resemblance to Algol 60, or to B?

I think he means that C++ is closer to C than Algol 68 is to Algol 60. He just 
expressed it wrong.

John Savard

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#211713

FromBob Eager <news0073@eager.cx>
Date2020-06-03 18:03 +0000
Message-ID<hjq70aFi0eU5@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#211712
On Wed, 03 Jun 2020 10:35:22 -0700, Quadibloc wrote:

> On Wednesday, June 3, 2020 at 11:26:56 AM UTC-6, Thomas Koenig wrote:
> 
>> I see a dangling else there...
>> 
>> Do you mean that C bears some resemblance to Algol 60, or to B?
> 
> I think he means that C++ is closer to C than Algol 68 is to Algol 60.
> He just expressed it wrong.

I never mentioned C++, and neither did Andy. He was comparing modern C to 
K&R C.

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#211716

FromAndy Walker <anw@cuboid.co.uk>
Date2020-06-03 19:27 +0100
Message-ID<rb8q33$1mfk$1@gioia.aioe.org>
In reply to#211708
On 03/06/2020 18:20, Bob Eager wrote:
>>> But that is specifically ALGOL 68 - a very very different language.
>> 	???  Different from Algol 60, certainly;  different from Algol?
>> [...]
> ALGOL 68 bore very little relation to its predecessor. The same can not
> be said of C.

	Yes, but when someone says "Algol", do you automatically think
of A60 or A68, and if the former, then why?  You don't automatically
[surely?] think of K&R C rather than C11 or C99 if someone mentions a
feature of recent C's?  If someone talks about IBM computers, do you
complain if the topic doesn't apply to the 1620?

-- 
Andy Walker,
Nottingham.

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#211717

FromBob Eager <news0073@eager.cx>
Date2020-06-03 18:38 +0000
Message-ID<hjq908Fi0eU6@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#211716
On Wed, 03 Jun 2020 19:27:49 +0100, Andy Walker wrote:

> On 03/06/2020 18:20, Bob Eager wrote:
>>>> But that is specifically ALGOL 68 - a very very different language.
>>> 	???  Different from Algol 60, certainly;  different from Algol?
>>> [...]
>> ALGOL 68 bore very little relation to its predecessor. The same can not
>> be said of C.
> 
> 	Yes, but when someone says "Algol", do you automatically think
> of A60 or A68, and if the former, then why?

Because it was used far more, and implemented on more systems, than ALGOL 
60 ever was. In my experience, anyway.

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#211720

FromQuadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca>
Date2020-06-03 13:41 -0700
Message-ID<70c34109-d081-4b73-81e1-f7062a3185f5@googlegroups.com>
In reply to#211717
On Wednesday, June 3, 2020 at 12:38:02 PM UTC-6, Bob Eager wrote:

> Because it was used far more, and implemented on more systems, than ALGOL 
> 60 ever was. In my experience, anyway.

I think you mean "than Algol 68 ever was".

John Savard

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#211722

FromBob Eager <news0073@eager.cx>
Date2020-06-03 21:15 +0000
Message-ID<hjqi6tFi0eU7@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#211720
On Wed, 03 Jun 2020 13:41:45 -0700, Quadibloc wrote:

> On Wednesday, June 3, 2020 at 12:38:02 PM UTC-6, Bob Eager wrote:
> 
>> Because it was used far more, and implemented on more systems, than
>> ALGOL 60 ever was. In my experience, anyway.
> 
> I think you mean "than Algol 68 ever was".

I think I do! Oops.

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