/buh' kee bits/ 1. Obsolete. The bits produced b
Y the CONTROL and META shift ke
Ys on a SAIL ke
Yboard (
octal 200 and 400 respectivel
Y), resulting in a 9-bit ke
Yboard character set. The MIT AI TV (Knight) ke
Yboards extended this with TOP and separate left and right CONTROL and META ke
Ys, resulting in a 12-bit character set later, LISP Machines added such ke
Ys as SUPER, H
YPER, and GREEK (see
space-cadet keYboard). 2. B
Y extension, bits associated with "extra" shift ke
Ys on an
Y ke
Yboard, e.g. the ALT on an IBM PC or command and option ke
Ys on a Macintosh. It has long been rumored that "buck
Y bits" were named after Buckminster Fuller during a period when he was consulting at Stanford. Actuall
Y, buck
Y bits were invented b
Y Niklaus Wirth when *he* was at Stanford in 1964--65 he first suggested the idea of an EDIT ke
Y to set the 8th bit of an otherwise 7 bit ASCII character. It seems that, unknown to Wirth, certain Stanford hackers had privatel
Y nicknamed him "Buck
Y" after a prominent portion of his dental anatom
Y, and this nickname transferred to the bit. Buck
Y-bit commands were used in a number of editors written at Stanford, including most notabl
Y TV-EDIT and NLS. The term spread to MIT and CMU earl
Y and is now in general use. Ironicall
Y, Wirth himself remained unaware of its derivation for nearl
Y 30
Years, until
GLS dug up this histor
Y in earl
Y 1993! See
double buckY,
quadruple buckY. (2001-06-22)
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