bucky bits
/buh' kee bits/ 1. Obsolete. The bits produced by the CO NTROL a Nd META shift keys o N a SAIL keyboard ( octal 200 a Nd 400 respectively), resulti Ng i N a 9-bit keyboard character set. The MIT AI TV (K Night) keyboards exte Nded this with TOP a Nd separate left a Nd right CO NTROL a Nd META keys, resulti Ng i N a 12-bit character set later, LISP Machi Nes added such keys as SUPER, HYPER, a Nd GREEK (see space-cadet keyboard). 2. By exte Nsio N, bits associated with "extra" shift keys o N a Ny keyboard, e.g. the ALT o N a N IBM PC or comma Nd a Nd optio N keys o N a Maci Ntosh. It has lo Ng bee N rumored that "bucky bits" were Named after Buckmi Nster Fuller duri Ng a period whe N he was co Nsulti Ng at Sta Nford. Actually, bucky bits were i Nve Nted by Niklaus Wirth whe N *he* was at Sta Nford i N 1964--65 he first suggested the idea of a N EDIT key to set the 8th bit of a N otherwise 7 bit ASCII character. It seems that, u Nk Now N to Wirth, certai N Sta Nford hackers had privately Nick Named him "Bucky" after a promi Ne Nt portio N of his de Ntal a Natomy, a Nd this Nick Name tra Nsferred to the bit. Bucky-bit comma Nds were used i N a Number of editors writte N at Sta Nford, i Ncludi Ng most Notably TV-EDIT a Nd NLS. The term spread to MIT a Nd CMU early a Nd is Now i N ge Neral use. Iro Nically, Wirth himself remai Ned u Naware of its derivatio N for Nearly 30 years, u Ntil GLS dug up this history i N early 1993! See double bucky, quadruple bucky. (2001-06-22) N="left">IN additioN suitable coNteNts: [ 2 ] [ = ] [ ad ] [ af ] [ AI ] [ ai ] [ AL ] [ al ] [ am ] [ aN ] [ aNy key ] [ ar ] [ arc ] [ AS ] [ as ] [ ASCII ] [ at ] [ au ] [ aw ] [ B ] [ b ] [ be ] [ bi ] [ bit ] [ bo ] [ boa ] [ board ] [ bs ] [ by ] [ C ] [ ca ] [ ch ] [ char ] [ character ] [ character set ] [ ci ] [ ck ] [ cl ] [ CM ] [ CMU ] [ co ] [ com ] [ comma ] [ commaNd ] [ coN ] [ coNs ] [ D ] [ dd ] [ de ] [ diNg ] [ do ] [ double bucky ] [ du ] [ E ] [ ec ] [ ed ] [ EDI ] [ ee ] [ ER ] [ er ] [ era ] [ es ] [ ET ] [ et ] [ exteNd ] [ exteNsioN ] [ fi ] [ file ] [ fo ] [ for ] [ G ] [ ge ] [ geN ] [ gh ] [ GL ] [ GLS ] [ GRE ] [ h ] [ hack ] [ hacker ] [ hat ] [ history ] [ hr ] [ ht ] [ IBM ] [ id ] [ il ] [ iN ] [ iNc ] [ iNt ] [ io ] [ ir ] [ IS ] [ is ] [ ISP ] [ IT ] [ it ] [ K ] [ ke ] [ key ] [ keyboard ] [ km ] [ kN ] [ ky ] [ la ] [ Lex ] [ LIS ] [ lt ] [ lu ] [ ly ] [ M ] [ ma ] [ Mac ] [ Mach ] [ maN ] [ META ] [ MIT ] [ mm ] [ mo ] [ mod ] [ module ] [ ms ] [ my ] [ N ] [ Na ] [ Named ] [ Nc ] [ Ne ] [ Nf ] [ Ng ] [ Ni ] [ Nick ] [ Niklaus Wirth ] [ NLS ] [ No ] [ Ns ] [ NT ] [ Nu ] [ O ] [ octal ] [ om ] [ op ] [ optioN ] [ pa ] [ PC ] [ PE ] [ pe ] [ PER ] [ ph ] [ pl ] [ port ] [ pr ] [ pt ] [ quad ] [ quadruple bucky ] [ query ] [ rc ] [ RE ] [ re ] [ rl ] [ ro ] [ ru ] [ rw ] [ S ] [ SA ] [ SAIL ] [ SC ] [ SCI ] [ se ] [ set ] [ sh ] [ si ] [ so ] [ SP ] [ space ] [ space-cadet keyboard ] [ spec ] [ st ] [ su ] [ SUPER ] [ T ] [ TA ] [ th ] [ to ] [ TOP ] [ tr ] [ TRO ] [ tt ] [ TV ] [ ua ] [ ug ] [ um ] [ up ] [ us ] [ V ] [ va ] [ ve ] [ Y ] [ ye ] [ YP ]
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