Well yeah I think it probably was but that doesn't account for computers older than that or the ones which no longer have it installed for whatever reason (second hand machine, lost discs, etc).
sigh This is frustrating me* and I've a right mind to give up on such people now. We could always do a poll on the Nova boards. If it turns out they're like less than 1% we can say something like "On behalf of the entire EVDC, screw you!".
* Who were the frickin' idiots that thought it would be funny to make 2 different characters to do the same thing? And then design 3 different formats based around them??!
). The problem was, which one should go? Apple kept CR, UNIX kept LF, and Microsoft didn't bother dropping either of them, so that's where the problem comes from.
) - remember ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, the telewriters did directly communicate with these codes. And if you have a closer look at the first 32 chars, the control chars, you can see quaint old stuff such as ACKnowledge, Negative AcKnowledge, etc... In fact, you could very well underline whole words by having them typed, then order some backspaces to go back a little, then some underscores; the same way, you could concievably do the accented chars by adding the accent afterwards the same way (