Unicode hexadecimal characters

[John Baxter]

In article <jwbaxter-CB588C.20463919062002 at corp.supernews.com>,
 John Baxter <jwbaxter at spamcop.net> wrote:

> No representation I've seen is less pretty than NCR's for the C-315 (ca 
> 1963).  The 6 digits for the hex values were simply the six characters 
> which happened to fall after the digits in the four-byte world.  I think 
> 10 was @...12 was space, and others were , . and two more.
> 
> Memory dumps in which spaces are either significant data or whitespace 
> depending on column "can be a nuisance."  ;-)

Some idiot name Baxter wrote the above.  Of course, he meant the 
"four-bit world".  The C-315 didn't have bytes, it had "slabs" of 12 
bits containing two characters or three digits depending on what one 
meant.

But all of you figured that out for yourselves and laughed at Baxter, 
anyhow.

Sorry about that.  --John

Short for syllable because someone felt that 12 bits was too short for a 
"word."