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by hhh 815 days ago
Why do the RS and GS characters get ignored so much? I have only seen them used in symbols on parts labels of one of the big 3 automakers.
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hakfoo 815 days ago
A lot of payment processor APIs use FS and GS intensely; I suspect it was an lighter way to serialize structured data when your typical card-payment terminal was an 8-bit MCU with a few kilobytes of memory and a dial-up modem.
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