COMPUTER NETWORKING

Detailed explanation-1: -The committee eventually decided on a 7-bit code for ASCII. 7 bits allow for 128 characters. While only American English characters and symbols were chosen for this encoding set, 7 bits meant minimized costs associated with transmitting this data (as opposed to say, 8 bits).

Detailed explanation-2: -7-bit encoding is a reference to the Ascii character set-pronounced “Askey” and standing for “American Standard Code for Information Interchange”-which is a mapping of English alphabet characters, numbers and symbols to 7-bit numerical values in the range 0 to 127.

Detailed explanation-3: -ASCII. ASCII was originally developed for basic computers and printers. It uses a 7-bit code to represent characters. As more computers began to work with 8-bit groups of data, ASCII was written as 8 bits.

Detailed explanation-4: -The standard ASCII character set is only 7 bits, and characters are represented as 8-bit bytes with the most significant bit set to 0. Modern computers almost universally use 8-bit bytes, and the extended ASCII character set includes 127 more 8-bit characters, where the most significant bit is set to 1.