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Re:What happens when you press a key in your terminal? by SheetPost on Thursday July 21, 2022 @05:17AM (#32177236)
> Here’s an old chart from the 60s that explains it

eh, the article linked does a very poor job of an explanation of ASCII

And no wonder, it's a deep subject - if you want answers the you want to watch this talk: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_mZBa3sqTrI

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Re:What happens when you press a key in your terminal? by gumby on Thursday July 21, 2022 @10:30AM (#32179844)
That site didn’t let me link straight to the chart. I’ve seen that chart for years (decades) but that was the only one I could quickly find on the web.
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