Derivation of the 7-bit ASCII character set developed in the 1970s
Stanford Extended ASCII (SEASCII) is a derivation of the 7-bit ASCII character set developed at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL/SU-AI) in the early 1970s.[1] Not all symbols match ASCII.
^ abcBeebe, Nelson H. F. (2005). "Proceedings of the Practical TEX 2005 Conference: The design of TEX and METAFONT: A retrospective"(PDF). TUGboat. 26 (1). Salt Lake City, Utah, USA: University of Utah, Department of Mathematics: 39-40. Retrieved 2017-03-07. The underscore operator in SAIL source-code assignments printed as a left arrow in the Stanford variant of ASCII, but PDP-10 sites elsewhere just saw it as a plain underscore. However, its use as the assignment operator meant that it could not be used as an extended letter to make compound names more readable, as is now common in many other programming languages. The left arrow in the Stanford variant of ASCII was not the only unusual character. (NB. Shows a table of Stanford extended ASCII following that described in RFC 698.)
Knuth, Donald Ervin (1979). TEX and METAFONT — New Directions in Typesetting. Bedford, MA, USA: Digital Press. p. 169. ISBN0-932376-02-9. (NB. Shows a table of SEASCII differing in a few code points from that described in RFC 698.)