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Week 07 Notes for CST8281
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-Ian! D. Allen - idallen@idallen.ca - www.idallen.com

Lecture Notes for This Week
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 Character representations (EBCDIC, ASCII, Unicode, UTF-8 and friends)
 Endian-ness

- From Blackboard Course Documents (publisher-restricted distribution): 02.ppt
  - ignore slides 62-70 (the "simplified" model)
  - ignore slides 75-76 (floating-point multiplication)
  - ignore slides 91-115 (error detection and correction)
  - ignore half of slide 117 (error detection and correction)
  - use my web pages instead
- From Blackboard Course Documents (publisher-restricted distribution): 03.ppt

Reading hexadecimal memory dumps:
 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hex_dump
 - http://endlessparadigm.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=3201
 - http://www.woodmann.com/crackz/Tutorials/Fship4.htm
 - http://www.grimes.demon.co.uk/workshops/fusionWSCrackThree.htm
 - http://www.arps.org/users/hs/moriartm/computer_repair/resources/hex_number_system_memory_addressing.pdf
   - see "Displaying Memory with DOS DEBUG" in the above PDF file

References:
 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Binary_Coded_Decimal_Interchange_Code
 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Standard_Code_for_Information_Interchange
 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin-1
 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode
 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8
 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parity_bit

 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endian

 - http://www.fileformat.info/ - file format information, e.g. GIF, JPEG

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