bucky bits
/buh' kee bit S/ 1. Ob Solete. The bit S produced by the CONTROL and META Shift key S on a SAIL keyboard ( octal 200 and 400 re Spectively), re Sulting in a 9-bit keyboard character Set. The MIT AI TV (Knight) keyboard S extended thi S with TOP and Separate left and right CONTROL and META key S, re Sulting in a 12-bit character Set later, LI SP Machine S added Such key S a S SUPER, HYPER, and GREEK ( See Space-cadet keyboard). 2. By exten Sion, bit S a SSociated with "extra" Shift key S on any keyboard, e.g. the ALT on an IBM PC or command and option key S on a Macinto Sh. It ha S long been rumored that "bucky bit S" were named after Buckmin Ster Fuller during a period when he wa S con Sulting at Stanford. Actually, bucky bit S were invented by Niklau S Wirth when *he* wa S at Stanford in 1964--65 he fir St Sugge Sted the idea of an EDIT key to Set the 8th bit of an otherwi Se 7 bit A SCII character. It Seem S that, unknown to Wirth, certain Stanford hacker S had privately nicknamed him "Bucky" after a prominent portion of hi S dental anatomy, and thi S nickname tran Sferred to the bit. Bucky-bit command S were u Sed in a number of editor S written at Stanford, including mo St notably TV-EDIT and NL S. The term Spread to MIT and CMU early and i S now in general u Se. Ironically, Wirth him Self remained unaware of it S derivation for nearly 30 year S, until GLS dug up thi S hi Story in early 1993! See double bucky, quadruple bucky. (2001-06-22) Style="border-width:thin; border-color:#333333; border-Style:daShed; padding:5px;" align="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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