Look up information on the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) code. If you were to design a memory system to store ASCII codes, what word size would you want the memory system to have?

What will be an ideal response?


SCII defi nes 7-bit binary combinations to represent letters, numbers, and special characters used in computers. Seven bits provides 128 different combinations. Some ASCII codes are 8 bits to provide 256 combinations. Since seven bits fi ts nicely into a byte, a word size of 8 bits works well.

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