18 Jul
2014
18 Jul
'14
4:43 p.m.
On 18 Jul 2014, at 20:45 , Chuck McManis <chuck.mcmanis at gmail.com> wrote:
So you could put one, two, or even a
hundred DEL characters at the end of the line and it wouldn't matter
semantically.. So those DEL characters became a way of providing a safe
'delay' that would allow a machine without any flow control to accurately
read in the paper tape.
I'm pretty sure that some of the 8-bit microcomputer systems used NULs for this exact
purpose, when loading data through the serial port; specifically, I think I heard about
NUL padding for the UK-101 and KIM-1.