Glossary of Data Communications Terms

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Term: ASCII
Definition: American (National) Standard Code for Information Interchange, X3.4-1968. A seven-bit-plus parity code established by the American National Standards Institute to achieve compatibility among data services and consisting of 96 displayed upper and lower case characters and 32 non-displayed control codes.

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