ly turned on the high bit to indicate the last letter in a word, condemning WordStar to English text only. Codes below 32 were called <em>unprintable</em> and were used for cussing. Just kidding. They were used for control characters, like 7 which made your computer beep and 12 which caused the current page of paper to go flying out of the printer and a new one to be fed in.</p>

<p>And all was good, assuming you were an English speaker.</p>

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