'One world' computer language being forged by major computermakers. (universal digital code development)

From: Software Industry Report | Date: March 4, 1991 | Copyright information

`ONE WORLD' COMPUTER LANGUAGE BEING FORGED BY MAJOR COMPUTERMAKERS

In what promises to be a computer industry technological breakthrough with incalculable impact, a group of leading hardware makers has decided to forge a lingua franca for the electronic age - a universal digital code to be used by all computers to represent the letters and characters of all languages from French to Bengali, Chinese, English, Russian, Hebrew and Arabic.

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