Computing (FOLDOC) dictionary
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The top bit of an 8-bit character, which is on in character
*mirabile dictu*, keyboards on IBM PC-class machines) have an
Historical note: although in modern usage shaped by a universe
of 8-bit bytes the meta bit is invariably
hex 80 (
octal0200), things were different on earlier machines with 36 bit
words and 9-bit bytes. The MIT and Stanford keyboards (see
their meta keys.