bucky bits
/buh' kee bits/ 1. Obsolete. The bits produced by the CONTROL and META shift keys on a SAIL keyboard ( octal 200 and 400 respectively), resulting in a 9-bit keyboard character set. The MIT AI TV (Knight) keyboards extended this with TOP and separate left and right CONTROL and META keys, resulting in a 12-bit character set later, LISP Machines added such keys as SUPER, HYPER, and GREEK (see space-cadet keyboard). 2. By extension, bits associated with "extra" shift keys on any keyboard, e.g. the ALT on an IBM PC OR command and option keys on a Macintosh. It has long been rum ORed that "bucky bits" were named after Buckminster Fuller during a period when he was consulting at Stanf ORd. Actually, bucky bits were invented by Niklaus Wirth when *he* was at Stanf ORd in 1964--65 he first suggested the idea of an EDIT key to set the 8th bit of an otherwise 7 bit ASCII character. It seems that, unknown to Wirth, certain Stanf ORd hackers had privately nicknamed him "Bucky" after a prominent p ORtion of his dental anatomy, and this nickname transferred to the bit. Bucky-bit commands were used in a number of edit ORs written at Stanf ORd, including most notably TV-EDIT and NLS. The term spread to MIT and CMU early and is now in general use. Ironically, Wirth himself remained unaware of its derivation f OR nearly 30 years, until GLS dug up this hist ORy in early 1993! See double bucky, quadruple bucky. (2001-06-22) 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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