Labels:book | crt screen | hakham | plant | railing | reckoner | sky OCR: COMPUTERS AND DIGITAL BASICS An alternative to the 8-bit Extended ASCII code, called EBCDIC (Extended Binary- Coded Decimal Interchange Code pronounced EB seh dick) usually used only by older IBM mainframe computers Unicode (pronounced YOU ni code uses sixteen bits and provides codes for 65 ,000 characters real bonus for representing the alphabets of mul- tiple languages. For example Unicode represents an uppercase A in the Russian Cyrillic alphabet as 000001 00000 10000 Why o ASCII and Extended ASCII provide codes for 0, and 9? While glancing at the table of ASCII codes Figure 1-26 you might have wondered why the table contains codes for 0 pue so on Aren't these numbers represented by the binary number system? A computer uses Extended ASCII character codes for 0, to represent numerals tha ...
