Chapter 3, Problem 9Q

Explanation of Solution

Coding:

• • Coding is the illustration of one set of symbols by another set of symbol.
• • In data communication, coding concept is a particular arrangement of binary values 0’s and 1’s used to denote letters, numbers, and other symbols that have meaning.

Three important coding schemes:

There are three important coding schemes. They are as follows:

• • ASCII (7 bit)
• • ASCII (8 bit)
• • EBCDIC

ASCII (7 bit):

• • ASCII means American standard for Information Interchange.
• • It is the most popular for data communications and is the standard code on most terminals and microcomputers...