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A characteristic of the ASCII code is

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its limitation to a maximum of 96 character configuration
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its use of the zone codes 1010, 1011 and 1100
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its independence from Hollerith code
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All of these
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The correct option is D its independence from Hollerith code

A characteristic of the ASCII code is its independence from Hollerith code

Hollerith code. [hol-uh-rith] noun Computers. a system for coding data into punched cards, in which each horizontal row is assigned a different value, and letters, numbers, or special characters are encoded as combinations of these values in a vertical column.

ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is the most common format for text files in computers and on the Internet. In an ASCII file, each alphabetic, numeric, or special character is represented with a 7-bit binary number (a string of seven 0s or 1s). 128 possible characters are defined.

Hollerith code A code for relating alphanumeric characters to holes in a punched card. It was devised by Herman Hollerith in 1888 and enabled the letters of the alphabet and the digits 0–9 to be encoded by a combination of punchings in 12 rows of a card.


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