Obsolete character code standard developed by Xerox Corporation
Xerox Character Code Standard (XCCS)
Language(s)
English, French, German, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean
Created by
Xerox
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The Xerox Character Code Standard (XCCS) is a historical 16-bit character encoding that was created by Xerox[1] in 1980 for the exchange of information between elements of the Xerox Network Systems Architecture.[2] It encodes the characters required for languages using the Latin, Arabic, Hebrew, Greek and Cyrillic scripts, the Chinese, Japanese and Korean writing systems, and technical symbols.[3]
It can be viewed as an early precursor of, and inspiration for, the Unicode Standard.[4][1]
The International Character Set (ICS) is compatible with XCCS.[5]
The XeroxCharacterCodeStandard (XCCS) is a historical 16-bit character encoding that was created by Xerox in 1980 for the exchange of information between...
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by Xerox to act as a common interchange format between disparate document formats. It was part of a system that included the XeroxCharacterCode Standard...
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as the XGP (Xerox Graphics Printer). In 1973, The Xerox 1200, used an optical analogue of the drum line printer—a spinning optical character drum and a...
1982 the company offered the standard version for the same price. By 1984, surplus 820 mainboards were available from Xerox for about $50 each, and one...
arithmetic coding, and the regions are encoded by describing which symbols appear where. Typically, a symbol will correspond to a character of text, but...
Xerox CharacterCodeStandard (XCCS) by the present author, a multilingual encoding which has been maintained by Xerox as an internal corporate standard since...
languages. In the ASCII character set, this character is encoded by the number 26 (1A hex). Standard keyboards transmit this code when the Ctrl and Z keys...
constructionist learning, but later found use in business. It was created at Xerox PARC by Learning Research Group (LRG) scientists, including Alan Kay, Dan...
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included in the Xerox Star can be seen as a direct descendant of it. In late 1978, in parallel with but independent of the work at Xerox PARC, Hewlett-Packard...
The Xerox 500 series computers, introduced starting in 1973, were also compatible upgrades to the Sigma systems using newer technology. In 1975, Xerox sold...
Hungarian notation was invented by Charles Simonyi, a programmer who worked at Xerox PARC circa 1972–1981, and who later became Chief Architect at Microsoft...
earliest versions of AmigaDOS). BCPL was also the initial language used in the Xerox PARC Alto project. Among other projects, the Bravo document preparation...
millions of dollars. During the Xerox years the company was officially Xerox Data Systems (XDS), whose machines were the Xerox 500 series. Throughout the majority...
serial terminals employing ASCII code, the most significant data bit of each character is sent first. As with the standard office Selectrics of the day,...
case style first became popular at Xerox PARC around 1978, with the Mesa programming language developed for the Xerox Alto computer. This machine lacked...
The Xerox 1200 (which could run at 4000 lines per minute) was announced in 1973 and first shipped it in late 1974. It used an optical character generator...