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On Thu, 05 Jan 06 12:51:54 GMT in alt.folklore.computers, All PDP-11s I saw came with diagnostics on gray non-oiled paper tape. FEs brought diagnostics in on DECtape or disk packs if the...
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I haven't reached this conclusion ...yet that it is wrong to base computer text on glyphs. I started the exact opposite buttumption--that the only way to encode text is by glyphs.
This is what I'm now trying to learn. How does one take a spoken language, and encode it so anybody can write it on paper and with the buttumption that another, unknown person, who is both geographically and chronologically distant, will be able to read it? My non-goal is conveying the same meaning.
Right. I started by throwing this method out. It isn't extensible, it is clumsy, it doesn't satify most needs.
My hare-brained design hit a granite wall when I finally thought about the word sort.
Actually, the PDP-11 bootstraps (different for different devices) were typically about 5-10 words of 16 bits. And the most used ones were on a bootstrap...
This is simply a bug in any design. I won't tolerate separate code space.
That's why I started thinking about defining a bit pattern based on how glyph form. Do you remember (you may be too young ;-))... One of the things that everybody did in de Olde IBM Card days was punch their name into a card. I did this for each member of my family and, IIRC, Mom has a card still pasted up in front of sink that says "Mom" in its holes.
That's how I got started with poking a pixel out of a nxm block of pixels to make a glyph. And then my brain finally got around to the word sort..then it crashed.
BAH
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