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that's ascii for you

December 20 2007 at 11:38 PM
mennonite  (no login)


Response to CASE 12:D$ = "Clears screen"

ascii 12 means the same thing to a printer and a screen. they had teletypes before they connected computers to monitors, so the screen is actually imitating the printer. cr (carriage return) and lf (line feed) also originated with typewriters and printers.

 
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