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90-435: The ROM includes a 5 x 7 pixel font, compatible with 6-bit ASCII . Effects such as inverse video or colored text (green on dark green; orange on dark orange) are possible. The hardware palette is composed of twelve colors: black, green, yellow, blue, red, buff (almost-but-not-quite white), cyan, magenta, and orange (two extra colors, dark green and dark orange, are the ink colours for all alphanumeric text mode characters, and

180-542: A digital representation. A color space may be arbitrary, i.e. with physically realized colors assigned to a set of physical color swatches with corresponding assigned color names (including discrete numbers in – for example – the Pantone collection), or structured with mathematical rigor (as with the NCS System , Adobe RGB and sRGB ). A "color space" is a useful conceptual tool for understanding

270-461: A linear space (vector space)... became widely known around 1920, when Hermann Weyl and others published formal definitions. In fact, such a definition had been given thirty years previously by Peano , who was thoroughly acquainted with Grassmann's mathematical work. Grassmann did not put down a formal definition—the language was not available—but there is no doubt that he had the concept. With this conceptual background, in 1853, Grassmann published

360-525: A shift function (like in ITA2 ), which would allow more than 64 codes to be represented by a six-bit code . In a shifted code, some character codes determine choices between options for the following character codes. It allows compact encoding, but is less reliable for data transmission , as an error in transmitting the shift code typically makes a long part of the transmission unreadable. The standards committee decided against shifting, and so ASCII required at least

450-522: A BS (backspace). Instead, there was a key marked RUB OUT that sent code 127 (DEL). The purpose of this key was to erase mistakes in a manually-input paper tape: the operator had to push a button on the tape punch to back it up, then type the rubout, which punched all holes and replaced the mistake with a character that was intended to be ignored. Teletypes were commonly used with the less-expensive computers from Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC); these systems had to use what keys were available, and thus

540-458: A character count followed by the characters of the line and which used EBCDIC rather than ASCII encoding. The Telnet protocol defined an ASCII "Network Virtual Terminal" (NVT), so that connections between hosts with different line-ending conventions and character sets could be supported by transmitting a standard text format over the network. Telnet used ASCII along with CR-LF line endings, and software using other conventions would translate between

630-417: A color model with no associated mapping function to an absolute color space is a more or less arbitrary color system with no connection to any globally understood system of color interpretation. Adding a specific mapping function between a color model and a reference color space establishes within the reference color space a definite "footprint", known as a gamut , and for a given color model, this defines

720-504: A color space. For example, Adobe RGB and sRGB are two different absolute color spaces, both based on the RGB color model. When defining a color space, the usual reference standard is the CIELAB or CIEXYZ color spaces, which were specifically designed to encompass all colors the average human can see. Since "color space" identifies a particular combination of the color model and the mapping function,

810-471: A graphic or document is sometimes called tagging or embedding ; tagging, therefore, marks the absolute meaning of colors in that graphic or document. A color in one absolute color space can be converted into another absolute color space, and back again, in general; however, some color spaces may have gamut limitations, and converting colors that lie outside that gamut will not produce correct results. There are also likely to be rounding errors, especially if

900-629: A light orange color is available as an alternative to green as the background color). According to the MC6847 datasheet, the colors are formed by the combination of three signals: Y {\displaystyle Y} with 6 possible levels, R − Y {\displaystyle R-Y} (or ϕ A {\displaystyle \phi A} with 3 possible levels) and B − Y {\displaystyle B-Y} (or ϕ B {\displaystyle \phi B} with 3 possible levels), based on

990-491: A line terminator. The tty driver would handle the LF to CRLF conversion on output so files can be directly printed to terminal, and NL (newline) is often used to refer to CRLF in UNIX documents. Unix and Unix-like systems, and Amiga systems, adopted this convention from Multics. On the other hand, the original Macintosh OS , Apple DOS , and ProDOS used carriage return (CR) alone as

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1080-600: A line terminator; however, since Apple later replaced these obsolete operating systems with their Unix-based macOS (formerly named OS X) operating system, they now use line feed (LF) as well. The Radio Shack TRS-80 also used a lone CR to terminate lines. Computers attached to the ARPANET included machines running operating systems such as TOPS-10 and TENEX using CR-LF line endings; machines running operating systems such as Multics using LF line endings; and machines running operating systems such as OS/360 that represented lines as

1170-416: A possible "invert" attribute (dark character on a bright background). The internal character rom is organized as a matrix of 64x35 (2240 bits) where each column consists of the 35 bytes (5x7) needed to form a character. The character bits are stored sequentially in column order, that is 7 bits of column 0 followed by the 7 bits of column 1, and so on. The following picture shows the bits overlapped on top of

1260-591: A reserved device control (DC0), synchronous idle (SYNC), and acknowledge (ACK). These were positioned to maximize the Hamming distance between their bit patterns. ASCII-code order is also called ASCIIbetical order. Collation of data is sometimes done in this order rather than "standard" alphabetical order ( collating sequence ). The main deviations in ASCII order are: An intermediate order converts uppercase letters to lowercase before comparing ASCII values. ASCII reserves

1350-541: A reserved meaning. Over time this interpretation has been co-opted and has eventually been changed. In modern usage, an ESC sent to the terminal usually indicates the start of a command sequence, which can be used to address the cursor, scroll a region, set/query various terminal properties, and more. They are usually in the form of a so-called " ANSI escape code " (often starting with a " Control Sequence Introducer ", "CSI", " ESC [ ") from ECMA-48 (1972) and its successors. Some escape sequences do not have introducers, like

1440-404: A seven-bit code. The committee considered an eight-bit code, since eight bits ( octets ) would allow two four-bit patterns to efficiently encode two digits with binary-coded decimal . However, it would require all data transmission to send eight bits when seven could suffice. The committee voted to use a seven-bit code to minimize costs associated with data transmission. Since perforated tape at

1530-399: A terminal. Some operating systems such as CP/M tracked file length only in units of disk blocks, and used control-Z to mark the end of the actual text in the file. For these reasons, EOF, or end-of-file , was used colloquially and conventionally as a three-letter acronym for control-Z instead of SUBstitute. The end-of-text character ( ETX ), also known as control-C , was inappropriate for

1620-409: A theory of how colors mix; it and its three color laws are still taught, as Grassmann's law . As noted first by Grassmann... the light set has the structure of a cone in the infinite-dimensional linear space. As a result, a quotient set (with respect to metamerism) of the light cone inherits the conical structure, which allows color to be represented as a convex cone in the 3- D linear space, which

1710-446: A variety of reasons, while using control-Z as the control character to end a file is analogous to the letter Z's position at the end of the alphabet, and serves as a very convenient mnemonic aid . A historically common and still prevalent convention uses the ETX character convention to interrupt and halt a program via an input data stream, usually from a keyboard. The Unix terminal driver uses

1800-731: Is 0101 in binary). Many of the non-alphanumeric characters were positioned to correspond to their shifted position on typewriters; an important subtlety is that these were based on mechanical typewriters, not electric typewriters. Mechanical typewriters followed the de facto standard set by the Remington No. 2 (1878), the first typewriter with a shift key, and the shifted values of 23456789- were "#$ %_&'()  – early typewriters omitted 0 and 1 , using O (capital letter o ) and l (lowercase letter L ) instead, but 1! and 0) pairs became standard once 0 and 1 became common. Thus, in ASCII !"#$ % were placed in

1890-639: Is a new international digital video color space standard published by the IEC (IEC 61966-2-4). It is based on the ITU BT.601 and BT.709 standards but extends the gamut beyond the R/G/B primaries specified in those standards. HSV ( h ue, s aturation, v alue), also known as HSB (hue, saturation, b rightness) is often used by artists because it is often more natural to think about a color in terms of hue and saturation than in terms of additive or subtractive color components. HSV

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1980-419: Is a transformation of an RGB color space, and its components and colorimetry are relative to the RGB color space from which it was derived. HSL ( h ue, s aturation, l ightness/ l uminance), also known as HLS or HSI (hue, saturation, i ntensity) is quite similar to HSV , with "lightness" replacing "brightness". The difference is that the brightness of a pure color is equal to the brightness of white, while

2070-457: Is referred to as the color cone. Colors can be created in printing with color spaces based on the CMYK color model , using the subtractive primary colors of pigment ( c yan , m agenta , y ellow , and blac k ). To create a three-dimensional representation of a given color space, we can assign the amount of magenta color to the representation's X axis , the amount of cyan to its Y axis, and

2160-427: Is replaced by a second control-S to resume output. The 33 ASR also could be configured to employ control-R (DC2) and control-T (DC4) to start and stop the tape punch; on some units equipped with this function, the corresponding control character lettering on the keycap above the letter was TAPE and TAPE respectively. The Teletype could not move its typehead backwards, so it did not have a key on its keyboard to send

2250-464: Is sometimes referred to as absolute, though it also needs a white point specification to make it so. A popular way to make a color space like RGB into an absolute color is to define an ICC profile, which contains the attributes of the RGB. This is not the only way to express an absolute color, but it is the standard in many industries. RGB colors defined by widely accepted profiles include sRGB and Adobe RGB . The process of adding an ICC profile to

2340-404: Is the newline problem on various operating systems . Teletype machines required that a line of text be terminated with both "carriage return" (which moves the printhead to the beginning of the line) and "line feed" (which advances the paper one line without moving the printhead). The name "carriage return" comes from the fact that on a manual typewriter the carriage holding the paper moves while

2430-429: Is the 24- bit implementation, with 8 bits, or 256 discrete levels of color per channel . Any color space based on such a 24-bit RGB model is thus limited to a range of 256×256×256 ≈ 16.7 million colors. Some implementations use 16 bits per component for 48 bits total, resulting in the same gamut with a larger number of distinct colors. This is especially important when working with wide-gamut color spaces (where most of

2520-530: Is the basis for almost all other color spaces. The CIERGB color space is a linearly-related companion of CIE XYZ. Additional derivatives of CIE XYZ include the CIELUV , CIEUVW , and CIELAB . RGB uses additive color mixing, because it describes what kind of light needs to be emitted to produce a given color. RGB stores individual values for red, green and blue. RGBA is RGB with an additional channel, alpha, to indicate transparency. Common color spaces based on

2610-450: Is the translation of the representation of a color from one basis to another. This typically occurs in the context of converting an image that is represented in one color space to another color space, the goal being to make the translated image look as similar as possible to the original. The RGB color model is implemented in different ways, depending on the capabilities of the system used. The most common incarnation in general use as of 2021

2700-486: The Comité Consultatif International Téléphonique et Télégraphique (CCITT) International Telegraph Alphabet No. 2 (ITA2) standard of 1932, FIELDATA (1956 ), and early EBCDIC (1963), more than 64 codes were required for ASCII. ITA2 was in turn based on Baudot code , the 5-bit telegraph code Émile Baudot invented in 1870 and patented in 1874. The committee debated the possibility of

2790-618: The Teletype Model 33 , which used the left-shifted layout corresponding to ASCII, differently from traditional mechanical typewriters. Electric typewriters, notably the IBM Selectric (1961), used a somewhat different layout that has become de facto standard on computers – following the IBM PC (1981), especially Model M (1984) – and thus shift values for symbols on modern keyboards do not correspond as closely to

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2880-697: The United States Federal Government support ASCII, stating: I have also approved recommendations of the Secretary of Commerce [ Luther H. Hodges ] regarding standards for recording the Standard Code for Information Interchange on magnetic tapes and paper tapes when they are used in computer operations. All computers and related equipment configurations brought into the Federal Government inventory on and after July 1, 1969, must have

2970-511: The YPbPr colorspace , and then converted for output into a NTSC analog signal. The low display resolution is a necessity of using television sets as display monitors. Making the display wider risked cutting off characters due to overscan . Compressing more dots into the display window would easily exceed the resolution of the television and be useless. According to the datasheets, there are non-interlaced (6847) and interlaced (6847Y) variants, plus

3060-688: The YPbPr color space. These signals can drive a TV directly, or be used with a NTSC modulator (Motorola MC1372) for RF output. Y {\displaystyle Y} may assume one of these voltages : "Black" = 0.72 V , "White Low" = 0.65 V , "White Medium" = 0.54 V and "White High" = 0.42 V . ϕ A {\displaystyle \phi A} (or R − Y {\displaystyle R-Y} ) and ϕ B {\displaystyle \phi B} (or B − Y {\displaystyle B-Y} ) may be: "Output Low" = 1.0 V , "R" = 1.5 V and "Input High" = 2.0 V . The following table shows

3150-667: The carriage return , line feed , and tab codes. For example, lowercase i would be represented in the ASCII encoding by binary 1101001 = hexadecimal 69 ( i is the ninth letter) = decimal 105. Despite being an American standard, ASCII does not have a code point for the cent (¢). It also does not support English terms with diacritical marks such as résumé and jalapeño , or proper nouns with diacritical marks such as Beyoncé (although on certain devices characters could be combined with punctuation such as Tilde (~) and Backtick (`) to approximate such characters.) The American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII)

3240-430: The lightness of a pure color is equal to the lightness of a medium gray. Early color spaces had two components. They largely ignored blue light because the added complexity of a 3-component process provided only a marginal increase in fidelity when compared to the jump from monochrome to 2-component color. In color science , there are two meanings of the term absolute color space : In this article, we concentrate on

3330-641: The "Reset to Initial State", "RIS" command " ESC c ". In contrast, an ESC read from the terminal is most often used as an out-of-band character used to terminate an operation or special mode, as in the TECO and vi text editors . In graphical user interface (GUI) and windowing systems, ESC generally causes an application to abort its current operation or to exit (terminate) altogether. The inherent ambiguity of many control characters, combined with their historical usage, created problems when transferring "plain text" files between systems. The best example of this

3420-574: The "help" prefix command in GNU Emacs . Many more of the control characters have been assigned meanings quite different from their original ones. The "escape" character (ESC, code 27), for example, was intended originally to allow sending of other control characters as literals instead of invoking their meaning, an "escape sequence". This is the same meaning of "escape" encountered in URL encodings, C language strings, and other systems where certain characters have

3510-401: The "line feed" function (which causes a printer to advance its paper), and character 8 represents " backspace ". RFC   2822 refers to control characters that do not include carriage return, line feed or white space as non-whitespace control characters. Except for the control characters that prescribe elementary line-oriented formatting, ASCII does not define any mechanism for describing

3600-560: The 6847T1 (non-interlaced only). The chips can be found with ceramic (L suffix), plastic (P suffix) or CERDIP (S suffix) packages. The chip outputs a NTSC-compatible progressive scan signal composed of one field of 262 lines 60 times per second. According to the MC6847 datasheet, colors are formed by the combination of three signals: Y {\displaystyle Y} luminance and ϕ A {\displaystyle \phi A} and ϕ B {\displaystyle \phi B} chroma , according to

3690-419: The ASCII chart in this article. Ninety-five of the encoded characters are printable: these include the digits 0 to 9 , lowercase letters a to z , uppercase letters A to Z , and punctuation symbols . In addition, the original ASCII specification included 33 non-printing control codes which originated with Teletype models ; most of these are now obsolete, although a few are still commonly used, such as

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3780-676: The ASCII table as earlier keyboards did. The /? pair also dates to the No. 2, and the ,< .> pairs were used on some keyboards (others, including the No. 2, did not shift , (comma) or . (full stop) so they could be used in uppercase without unshifting). However, ASCII split the ;: pair (dating to No. 2), and rearranged mathematical symbols (varied conventions, commonly -* =+ ) to :* ;+ -= . Some then-common typewriter characters were not included, notably ½ ¼ ¢ , while ^ ` ~ were included as diacritics for international use, and < > for mathematical use, together with

3870-583: The Color Computer 3, with a different chip, made it dark orange on orange. The first eight colors of this table were numbered 0 to 7 in the upper bits of the character set (when bit 7 was set, bits 4-6 represented the color number), but ColorBASIC's numbering was 1 higher than that in text mode, as it used 0 for black. Possible MC6847 video display modes: The built-in character generator ROM offers 64 ASCII characters with 5x7 pixels. Characters can be green or orange, on dark green or orange background, with

3960-467: The DEL character was assigned to erase the previous character. Because of this, DEC video terminals (by default) sent the DEL character for the key marked "Backspace" while the separate key marked "Delete" sent an escape sequence ; many other competing terminals sent a BS character for the backspace key. The early Unix tty drivers, unlike some modern implementations, allowed only one character to be set to erase

4050-595: The RGB model include sRGB , Adobe RGB , ProPhoto RGB , scRGB , and CIE RGB . CMYK uses subtractive color mixing used in the printing process, because it describes what kind of inks need to be applied so the light reflected from the substrate and through the inks produces a given color. One starts with a white substrate (canvas, page, etc.), and uses ink to subtract color from white to create an image. CMYK stores ink values for cyan, magenta, yellow and black. There are many CMYK color spaces for different sets of inks, substrates, and press characteristics (which change

4140-462: The Teletype Model 33 machine assignments for codes 17 (control-Q, DC1, also known as XON), 19 (control-S, DC3, also known as XOFF), and 127 ( delete ) became de facto standards. The Model 33 was also notable for taking the description of control-G (code 7, BEL, meaning audibly alert the operator) literally, as the unit contained an actual bell which it rang when it received a BEL character. Because

4230-626: The X, Y, and Z axes. Colors generated on a given monitor will be limited by the reproduction medium, such as the phosphor (in a CRT monitor ) or filters and backlight ( LCD monitor). Another way of creating colors on a monitor is with an HSL or HSV color model, based on hue , saturation , brightness (value/lightness). With such a model, the variables are assigned to cylindrical coordinates . Many color spaces can be represented as three-dimensional values in this manner, but some have more, or fewer dimensions, and some, such as Pantone , cannot be represented in this way at all. Color space conversion

4320-448: The amount of yellow to its Z axis. The resulting 3-D space provides a unique position for every possible color that can be created by combining those three pigments. Colors can be created on computer monitors with color spaces based on the RGB color model , using the additive primary colors ( red , green , and blue ). A three-dimensional representation would assign each of the three colors to

4410-439: The capability to use the Standard Code for Information Interchange and the formats prescribed by the magnetic tape and paper tape standards when these media are used. Color spaces A color space is a specific organization of colors . In combination with color profiling supported by various physical devices, it supports reproducible representations of color – whether such representation entails an analog or

4500-585: The change into its draft standard. The X3.2.4 task group voted its approval for the change to ASCII at its May 1963 meeting. Locating the lowercase letters in sticks 6 and 7 caused the characters to differ in bit pattern from the upper case by a single bit, which simplified case-insensitive character matching and the construction of keyboards and printers. The X3 committee made other changes, including other new characters (the brace and vertical bar characters), renaming some control characters (SOM became start of header (SOH)) and moving or removing others (RU

4590-428: The color capabilities of a particular device or digital file. When trying to reproduce color on another device, color spaces can show whether shadow/highlight detail and color saturation can be retained, and by how much either will be compromised. A " color model " is an abstract mathematical model describing the way colors can be represented as tuples of numbers (e.g. triples in RGB or quadruples in CMYK ); however,

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4680-719: The color. It is similar to the YUV scheme used in most video capture systems and in PAL ( Australia , Europe , except France , which uses SECAM ) television, except that the YIQ color space is rotated 33° with respect to the YUV color space and the color axes are swapped. The YDbDr scheme used by SECAM television is rotated in another way. YPbPr is a scaled version of YUV. It is most commonly seen in its digital form, YCbCr , used widely in video and image compression schemes such as MPEG and JPEG . xvYCC

4770-493: The concept of "carriage return" was meaningless. IBM's PC DOS (also marketed as MS-DOS by Microsoft) inherited the convention by virtue of being loosely based on CP/M, and Windows in turn inherited it from MS-DOS. Requiring two characters to mark the end of a line introduces unnecessary complexity and ambiguity as to how to interpret each character when encountered by itself. To simplify matters, plain text data streams, including files, on Multics used line feed (LF) alone as

4860-524: The convention was so well established that backward compatibility necessitated continuing to follow it. When Gary Kildall created CP/M , he was inspired by some of the command line interface conventions used in DEC's RT-11 operating system. Until the introduction of PC DOS in 1981, IBM had no influence in this because their 1970s operating systems used EBCDIC encoding instead of ASCII, and they were oriented toward punch-card input and line printer output on which

4950-410: The conversion between them should maintain the same color. However, in general, converting between two non-absolute color spaces (for example, RGB to CMYK ) or between absolute and non-absolute color spaces (for example, RGB to L*a*b*) is almost a meaningless concept. A different method of defining absolute color spaces is familiar to many consumers as the swatch card, used to select paint, fabrics, and

5040-562: The customer to verify the ROM pattern. The MC6847 also supports an external character ROM. The Dragon 200-E, a spanish variant of the Dragon 64 is a great example of this. The machine had a daughterboard that fits on the MC6847 socket and had the VDG plus a 2532 EPROM and some decoding logic. The updated version of the chip ( MC6847T1 ) had a 96 character ROM that included lowercase characters. Here you can see

5130-595: The default MC6847 and MC6847T1 default character sets, the Dragon 200-E one and the Dragon 200-E daughterboard. ASCII ASCII ( / ˈ æ s k iː / ASS -kee ), an acronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange , is a character encoding standard for electronic communication. ASCII codes represent text in computers, telecommunications equipment , and other devices. ASCII has just 128 code points , of which only 95 are printable characters , which severely limit its scope. The set of available punctuation had significant impact on

5220-465: The dot gain or transfer function for each ink and thus change the appearance). YIQ was formerly used in NTSC ( North America , Japan and elsewhere) television broadcasts for historical reasons. This system stores a luma value roughly analogous to (and sometimes incorrectly identified as) luminance , along with two chroma values as approximate representations of the relative amounts of blue and red in

5310-659: The earlier five-bit ITA2 , which was also used by the competing Telex teleprinter system. Bob Bemer introduced features such as the escape sequence . His British colleague Hugh McGregor Ross helped to popularize this work – according to Bemer, "so much so that the code that was to become ASCII was first called the Bemer–Ross Code in Europe". Because of his extensive work on ASCII, Bemer has been called "the father of ASCII". On March 11, 1968, US President Lyndon B. Johnson mandated that all computers purchased by

5400-576: The earlier teleprinter encoding systems. Like other character encodings , ASCII specifies a correspondence between digital bit patterns and character symbols (i.e. graphemes and control characters ). This allows digital devices to communicate with each other and to process, store, and communicate character-oriented information such as written language. Before ASCII was developed, the encodings in use included 26 alphabetic characters, 10 numerical digits , and from 11 to 25 special graphic symbols. To include all these, and control characters compatible with

5490-544: The end-of-transmission character ( EOT ), also known as control-D, to indicate the end of a data stream. In the C programming language , and in Unix conventions, the null character is used to terminate text strings ; such null-terminated strings can be known in abbreviation as ASCIZ or ASCIIZ, where here Z stands for "zero". Other representations might be used by specialist equipment, for example ISO 2047 graphics or hexadecimal numbers. Codes 20 hex to 7E hex , known as

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5580-473: The eye, each of which was sensitive to a particular range of visible light. Hermann von Helmholtz developed the Young–Helmholtz theory further in 1850: that the three types of cone photoreceptors could be classified as short-preferring ( blue ), middle-preferring ( green ), and long-preferring ( red ), according to their response to the wavelengths of light striking the retina . The relative strengths of

5670-624: The first 32 code points (numbers 0–31 decimal) and the last one (number 127 decimal) for control characters . These are codes intended to control peripheral devices (such as printers ), or to provide meta-information about data streams, such as those stored on magnetic tape. Despite their name, these code points do not represent printable characters (i.e. they are not characters at all, but signals). For debugging purposes, "placeholder" symbols (such as those given in ISO 2047 and its predecessors) are assigned to them. For example, character 0x0A represents

5760-448: The keytop for the O key also showed a left-arrow symbol (from ASCII-1963, which had this character instead of underscore ), a noncompliant use of code 15 (control-O, shift in) interpreted as "delete previous character" was also adopted by many early timesharing systems but eventually became neglected. When a Teletype 33 ASR equipped with the automatic paper tape reader received a control-S (XOFF, an abbreviation for transmit off), it caused

5850-776: The local conventions and the NVT. The File Transfer Protocol adopted the Telnet protocol, including use of the Network Virtual Terminal, for use when transmitting commands and transferring data in the default ASCII mode. This adds complexity to implementations of those protocols, and to other network protocols, such as those used for E-mail and the World Wide Web, on systems not using the NVT's CR-LF line-ending convention. The PDP-6 monitor, and its PDP-10 successor TOPS-10, used control-Z (SUB) as an end-of-file indication for input from

5940-506: The more common colors are located relatively close together), or when a large number of digital filtering algorithms are used consecutively. The same principle applies for any color space based on the same color model, but implemented at different bit depths . CIE 1931 XYZ color space was one of the first attempts to produce a color space based on measurements of human color perception (earlier efforts were by James Clerk Maxwell , König & Dieterici, and Abney at Imperial College ) and it

6030-558: The popular range of only 256 distinct values per component ( 8-bit color ) is used. One part of the definition of an absolute color space is the viewing conditions. The same color, viewed under different natural or artificial lighting conditions, will look different. Those involved professionally with color matching may use viewing rooms, lit by standardized lighting. Occasionally, there are precise rules for converting between non-absolute color spaces. For example, HSL and HSV spaces are defined as mappings of RGB. Both are non-absolute, but

6120-452: The previous character in canonical input processing (where a very simple line editor is available); this could be set to BS or DEL, but not both, resulting in recurring situations of ambiguity where users had to decide depending on what terminal they were using ( shells that allow line editing, such as ksh , bash , and zsh , understand both). The assumption that no key sent a BS character allowed Ctrl+H to be used for other purposes, such as

6210-515: The previous section. Code 7F hex corresponds to the non-printable "delete" (DEL) control character and is therefore omitted from this chart; it is covered in the previous section's chart. Earlier versions of ASCII used the up arrow instead of the caret (5E hex ) and the left arrow instead of the underscore (5F hex ). ASCII was first used commercially during 1963 as a seven-bit teleprinter code for American Telephone & Telegraph 's TWX (TeletypeWriter eXchange) network. TWX originally used

6300-413: The printable characters, represent letters, digits, punctuation marks , and a few miscellaneous symbols. There are 95 printable characters in total. Code 20 hex , the "space" character, denotes the space between words, as produced by the space bar of a keyboard. Since the space character is considered an invisible graphic (rather than a control character) it is listed in the table below instead of in

6390-444: The proposed Bell code and ASCII were both ordered for more convenient sorting (i.e., alphabetization) of lists and added features for devices other than teleprinters. The use of ASCII format for Network Interchange was described in 1969. That document was formally elevated to an Internet Standard in 2015. Originally based on the (modern) English alphabet , ASCII encodes 128 specified characters into seven-bit integers as shown by

6480-425: The rom array, with the ones of the first character (@) in different colours to highlight the organization. Motorola offered its customers the possibility of ordering the MC6847 with the internal ROM masked with a custom pattern. The customer would provide the ROM pattern on MCM2708 or MCM2716 PROMS or on a MDOS formatted 8-inch single sided, single density floppy disk. Motorola would then send 10 verification units for

6570-516: The same reason, many special signs commonly used as separators were placed before digits. The committee decided it was important to support uppercase 64-character alphabets , and chose to pattern ASCII so it could be reduced easily to a usable 64-character set of graphic codes, as was done in the DEC SIXBIT code (1963). Lowercase letters were therefore not interleaved with uppercase . To keep options available for lowercase letters and other graphics,

6660-483: The second definition. CIEXYZ , sRGB , and ICtCp are examples of absolute color spaces, as opposed to a generic RGB color space . A non-absolute color space can be made absolute by defining its relationship to absolute colorimetric quantities. For instance, if the red, green, and blue colors in a monitor are measured exactly, together with other properties of the monitor, then RGB values on that monitor can be considered as absolute. The CIE 1976 L*, a*, b* color space

6750-494: The second stick, positions 1–5, corresponding to the digits 1–5 in the adjacent stick. The parentheses could not correspond to 9 and 0 , however, because the place corresponding to 0 was taken by the space character. This was accommodated by removing _ (underscore) from 6 and shifting the remaining characters, which corresponded to many European typewriters that placed the parentheses with 8 and 9 . This discrepancy from typewriters led to bit-paired keyboards , notably

6840-487: The signal values used: Notes: 1) The colors shown are adjusted for maximum brightness and only approximate (different color spaces are used on TV - BT601 and web pages - sRGB ). 2) At least on the Color Computer 1 and 2, the alternate palette of text modes (actually the text portion of semigraphic modes) was dark pink (or dark red) on light pink, of shades not listed here (and no dark orange), whereas

6930-525: The signals detected by the three types of cones are interpreted by the brain as a visible color. But it is not clear that they thought of colors as being points in color space. The color-space concept was likely due to Hermann Grassmann , who developed it in two stages. First, he developed the idea of vector space , which allowed the algebraic representation of geometric concepts in n -dimensional space . Fearnley-Sander (1979) describes Grassmann's foundation of linear algebra as follows: The definition of

7020-534: The simple line characters \ | (in addition to common / ). The @ symbol was not used in continental Europe and the committee expected it would be replaced by an accented À in the French variation, so the @ was placed in position 40 hex , right before the letter A. The control codes felt essential for data transmission were the start of message (SOM), end of address (EOA), end of message (EOM), end of transmission (EOT), "who are you?" (WRU), "are you?" (RU),

7110-402: The special and numeric codes were arranged before the letters, and the letter A was placed in position 41 hex to match the draft of the corresponding British standard. The digits 0–9 are prefixed with 011, but the remaining 4 bits correspond to their respective values in binary, making conversion with binary-coded decimal straightforward (for example, 5 in encoded to 011 0101 , where 5

7200-425: The standard is unclear about the meaning of "delete". Probably the most influential single device affecting the interpretation of these characters was the Teletype Model 33 ASR, which was a printing terminal with an available paper tape reader/punch option. Paper tape was a very popular medium for long-term program storage until the 1980s, less costly and in some ways less fragile than magnetic tape. In particular,

7290-440: The structure or appearance of text within a document. Other schemes, such as markup languages , address page and document layout and formatting. The original ASCII standard used only short descriptive phrases for each control character. The ambiguity this caused was sometimes intentional, for example where a character would be used slightly differently on a terminal link than on a data stream , and sometimes accidental, for example

7380-511: The syntax of computer languages and text markup. ASCII hugely influenced the design of character sets used by modern computers, including Unicode which has over a million code points, but the first 128 of these are the same as ASCII. The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) prefers the name US-ASCII for this character encoding. ASCII is one of the IEEE milestones . ASCII was developed in part from telegraph code . Its first commercial use

7470-441: The tape reader to stop; receiving control-Q (XON, transmit on) caused the tape reader to resume. This so-called flow control technique became adopted by several early computer operating systems as a "handshaking" signal warning a sender to stop transmission because of impending buffer overflow ; it persists to this day in many systems as a manual output control technique. On some systems, control-S retains its meaning, but control-Q

7560-600: The time could record eight bits in one position, it also allowed for a parity bit for error checking if desired. Eight-bit machines (with octets as the native data type) that did not use parity checking typically set the eighth bit to 0. The code itself was patterned so that most control codes were together and all graphic codes were together, for ease of identification. The first two so-called ASCII sticks (32 positions) were reserved for control characters. The "space" character had to come before graphics to make sorting easier, so it became position 20 hex ; for

7650-447: The typebars that strike the ribbon remain stationary. The entire carriage had to be pushed (returned) to the right in order to position the paper for the next line. DEC operating systems ( OS/8 , RT-11 , RSX-11 , RSTS , TOPS-10 , etc.) used both characters to mark the end of a line so that the console device (originally Teletype machines) would work. By the time so-called "glass TTYs" (later called CRTs or "dumb terminals") came along,

7740-467: The word is often used informally to identify a color model. However, even though identifying a color space automatically identifies the associated color model, this usage is incorrect in a strict sense. For example, although several specific color spaces are based on the RGB color model , there is no such thing as the singular RGB color space . In 1802, Thomas Young postulated the existence of three types of photoreceptors (now known as cone cells ) in

7830-704: Was developed under the auspices of a committee of the American Standards Association (ASA), called the X3 committee, by its X3.2 (later X3L2) subcommittee, and later by that subcommittee's X3.2.4 working group (now INCITS ). The ASA later became the United States of America Standards Institute (USASI) and ultimately became the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). With the other special characters and control codes filled in, ASCII

7920-554: Was in the Teletype Model 33 and the Teletype Model 35 as a seven- bit teleprinter code promoted by Bell data services. Work on the ASCII standard began in May 1961, with the first meeting of the American Standards Association's (ASA) (now the American National Standards Institute or ANSI) X3.2 subcommittee. The first edition of the standard was published in 1963, underwent a major revision during 1967, and experienced its most recent update during 1986. Compared to earlier telegraph codes,

8010-676: Was published as ASA X3.4-1963, leaving 28 code positions without any assigned meaning, reserved for future standardization, and one unassigned control code. There was some debate at the time whether there should be more control characters rather than the lowercase alphabet. The indecision did not last long: during May 1963 the CCITT Working Party on the New Telegraph Alphabet proposed to assign lowercase characters to sticks 6 and 7, and International Organization for Standardization TC 97 SC 2 voted during October to incorporate

8100-450: Was removed). ASCII was subsequently updated as USAS X3.4-1967, then USAS X3.4-1968, ANSI X3.4-1977, and finally, ANSI X3.4-1986. In the X3.15 standard, the X3 committee also addressed how ASCII should be transmitted ( least significant bit first) and recorded on perforated tape. They proposed a 9-track standard for magnetic tape and attempted to deal with some punched card formats. The X3.2 subcommittee designed ASCII based on

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