Ancient Romans wrote everything in upper case, and wrote numbers with letters, because they could only use 5-bit encoding due to severe RAM shortages.
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Ancient Romans wrote everything in upper case, and wrote numbers with letters, because they could only use 5-bit encoding due to severe RAM shortages.
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Ancient Romans wrote everything in upper case, and wrote numbers with letters, because they could only use 5-bit encoding due to severe RAM shortages.
@deshipu I always thought it was because of using Baudot (Murray code) instead of ASCII or Unicode.
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Ancient Romans wrote everything in upper case, and wrote numbers with letters, because they could only use 5-bit encoding due to severe RAM shortages.
The concept of zero was different during Roman times, considered a non sequitur.
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@deshipu I always thought it was because of using Baudot (Murray code) instead of ASCII or Unicode.
@Dianora It's a 5-bit encoding, no?
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@Dianora It's a 5-bit encoding, no?
@deshipu Yes so that's a good reason if RAM prices are high.
They used an escape char to switch back and forth, but no lower case even then.
P.S. I owned a TTY-15 years ago. -
@suetanvil or their C strings, which is the actual reason of the fall of the empire
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Ancient Romans wrote everything in upper case, and wrote numbers with letters, because they could only use 5-bit encoding due to severe RAM shortages.
@deshipu thinking about the RAM shortage in imperial Rome caused by the augurs buying out the entire supply of sheepskin parchment
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