This means that two subsequent DTMF tones are enough to transfer whole byte of data or 8-bit ASCII character.

Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code ( EBCDIC ) is an 8-bit character encoding used mainly on IBM mainframe and IBM midrange computer operating systems.

It is an 8-bit character encoding, in contrast to, and developed separately from, the 7-bit ASCII encoding scheme.

Modern microprocessors will allow for much faster processing, if 8-bit character Strings are not hashed by

ISO / IEC 8859-1: 1998, Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 1: Latin alphabet No. 1, is part of the ISO / IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 1987.

It is the basis for most popular 8-bit character sets, including ISO-8859-1 ( informally referred to as latin1 ), and Windows-1252.

ISO / IEC 8859 is a joint ISO and IEC series of standards for 8-bit character encodings.

However, more characters were needed than could fit in a single 8-bit character encoding, so several mappings were developed, including at least ten suitable for various Latin-derived alphabets.

To this end a series of encodings registered with the IANA add the C0 control set ( control characters mapped to bytes 0 to 31 ) from ISO 646 and the C1 control set ( control characters mapped to bytes 128 to 159 ) from ISO 6429, resulting in full 8-bit character maps with most, if not all, bytes assigned.

These include text in languages other than English using character encodings other than ASCII, and 8-bit binary content such as files containing images, sounds, movies, and computer programs.

MIME defines a collection of email headers for specifying additional attributes of a message including content type, and defines a set of transfer encodings which can be used to represent 8-bit binary data using characters from the 7-bit ASCII character set.

UCS-2 uses a 16-bit code unit ( two 8-bit bytes ) for each character but cannot encode every character in the current Unicode standard.

UTF-8 encodes each of the 1, 112, 064 code points in the Unicode character set using one to four 8-bit bytes ( termed " octets " in the Unicode Standard ).

Minor enhancements include 8-bit input, support for multi-byte character encodings like UTF-8, and features demanded by POSIX. 2.

ISO / IEC 8859-15: 1999, Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 15: Latin alphabet No. 9, is part of the ISO / IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 1999.

There were attempts to make ISO-8859-15 the default character set for 8-bit communication, but it was never able to supplant the popular ISO-8859-1.

Most competitors to Intel started off with such character oriented 8-bit microprocessors.

It consists of an 8-bit extension of the 7-bit ASCII character space from 0x20 to 0x7F ( the printable characters and the space ) and eight of the control characters.

Data is converted, if needed, from the sending host's character representation to " 8-bit ASCII " before transmission, and ( again, if necessary ) to the receiving host's character representation.

8-bit clean describes a computer system that correctly handles 8-bit character encodings, such as the ISO 8859 series and the UTF-8 encoding of Unicode.

ISO / IEC 8859-3: 1999, Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 3: Latin alphabet No. 3, is part of the ISO / IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 1988.

Two alternative character sets may be used: 5-bit ITA2 or 8-bit ASCII.

ISO / IEC 8859-2: 1999, Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 2: Latin alphabet No. 2, is part of the ISO / IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 1987.

ISO / IEC 8859-11: 2001, Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 11: Latin / Thai alphabet, is part of the ISO / IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 2001.

This was accomplished with the National Replacement Character Set feature ( e. g., Multinational Character Set ) and support for 8-bit downloadable character sets.

Although MIME allows encoding the message body in various character sets ( broader than ASCII ), the underlying transmission infrastructure ( SMTP, the main E-mail transfer standard ) is still not guaranteed to be 8-bit clean.

ISO / IEC 8859-8: 1999, Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 8: Latin / Hebrew alphabet, is part of the ISO / IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 1987.

The TI-92 Plus and many HP calculators read the code much like computers do and they have functions such as Chr $, Chr, Char, Asc, and the like in Basic ( sometimes renamed ) in addition to using somewhat modified or unmodified versions of 7-bit, 8-bit or 9-bit ISO 8859-derived character sets and other character sets running from of values of 0 to 127 ( 07F hex ), 255 ( 0FF hex ), or 511 ( 1FF hex ) -- and many of them have a tool similar to the Character Map on Windows.

ISO / IEC 8859-4: 1998, Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 4: Latin alphabet No. 4, is part of the ISO / IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 1988.

ISO / IEC 8859-5: 1999, Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 5: Latin / Cyrillic alphabet, is part of the ISO / IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 1988.

ISO / IEC 8859-6: 1999, Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 6: Latin / Arabic alphabet, is part of the ISO / IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 1987.

ISO / IEC 8859-7: 2003, Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 7: Latin / Greek alphabet, is part of the ISO / IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 1987.

ISO / IEC 8859-9: 1999, Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 9: Latin alphabet No. 5, is part of the ISO / IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 1989.

ISO / IEC 8859-10: 1998, Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 10: Latin alphabet No. 6, is part of the ISO / IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 1992.

ISO / IEC 8859-13: 1998, Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 13: Latin alphabet No. 7, is part of the ISO / IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 1998.

ISO / IEC 8859-14: 1998, Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 14: Latin alphabet No. 8 ( Celtic ), is part of the ISO / IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 1998.

ISO / IEC 8859-16: 2001, Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 16: Latin alphabet No. 10, is part of the ISO / IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 2001.

The 8-bit microprocessors ' instruction sets were too primitive to support compiled programs and large software systems.

The UCSD p-System supported a complete student programming environment on early 8-bit microprocessors with poor instruction sets and little RAM, by compiling to a virtual stack machine rather than to the actual hardware.

The Amiga provided a significant upgrade from 8-bit computers, such as the Commodore 64, and the platform quickly grew in popularity among computer enthusiasts.

A keyboard was developed, and the keyboard had an expansion port ( which was the SIO port from Atari's 8-bit computer line, though the 7800 could not run Atari computer programs ) allowed for the addition of peripherals such as disk drives and printers.

Early 4-bit and 8-bit microprocessors such as the 4004, 8008 and numerous others, typically had single accumulators.

It is not at all uncommon, therefore, to see 4-or 8-bit microcontrollers used in modern applications, even though CPUs with much higher range ( such as 16, 32, 64, even 128-bit ) are available.

Because this internal 1571 does not have an unused 8-bit input / output port on any chip, unlike most other Commodore drives, it is not possible to install a parallel cable in this drive, such as that used by SpeedDOS, Dolphin DOS and some other fast third-party Commodore DOS replacements.

Many 1980s 8-bit home computers feature gutterboxing display mode, because the TV screens normally used as monitors at that time tended to distort the image near the border of the screen, to such an extent that text displayed in that area became illegible.

* High-end digital image equipment are often able to deal with larger integer ranges for each primary color, such as 0 .. 1023 ( 10 bits ), 0 .. 65535 ( 16 bits ) or even larger, by extending the 24-bits ( three 8-bit values ) to 32-bit, 48-bit, or 64-bit units ( more or less independent from the particular computer's word size ).

The 8086 was introduced during 1978 as a fully 16-bit extension of Intel's 8-bit based 8080 microprocessor and also introduced memory segmentation to overcome the 16-bit addressing barrier of such designs.

The Inform website lists links to freely available interpreters for 15 desktop operating systems ( including 8-bit microcomputers from the 1980s such as the Apple II, TRS-80 and Sinclair, and grouping " Unix " and " Windows " as one each ), 10 mobile operating systems ( including Palm OS and the Game Boy ), and three interpreter platforms ( Emacs, Java and JavaScript ).

An 8-bit LRC such as this is equivalent to a cyclic redundancy check using the polynomial x < sup > 8 </ sup >+ 1, but the independence of the bit streams is less clear when looked at that way.

These include most of the classic 8-bit systems ( such as the Nintendo Entertainment System, the original Game Boy, and the PC Engine ).

A representative system of this era would have used an S100 bus, an 8-bit processor such as a Intel 8080 or Zilog Z80, and either CP / M or MP / M operating system.

It is most commonly associated with the first wave of all-in-one 8-bit home computers and small business microcomputers ( such as the Apple II, Commodore 64, BBC Micro, and TRS 80 ).

Efficiencies of such an encoding scheme are on the order of 35-40 % ( e. g., 36 % from 44 8-bit ASCII characters being needed to represent 16 bytes of binary data per frame ).

Even some consumer products were given light pens, such as the Thomson MO5 computer family as well as the Atari 8-bit home computers.

Some older 8-bit computers, such as the Commodore PET 2001 or Kaypro II, also fit into this category.

While many 8-bit home computers of the 1980s, such as the Commodore 64, Apple II series, the Atari 8-bit, the Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum series and others could load a third-party disk-loading operating system, such as CP / M or GEOS, they were generally used without one.