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| Just saw - an anagram of "The Morse code" is "Here comes dots". Well, I found it amusing... -- ] 03:17 17 Jul 2003 (UTC) | |||
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From the code article:
- In the days when Morse code was widely used, elaborate commercial codes that encoded complete phrases into single words (five-letter groups) were developed, so that telegraphers became conversant with such "words" as BYOXO ("Are you trying to crawl out of it?"), LIOUY ("Why do you not answer my question?"), and AYYLU ("Not clearly coded, repeat more clearly."). The purpose of these codes was to save on cable costs.
Should this be added to the Morse code article?
Probably, but I also put it back into code; it was a good example of the data compression use that wasn't otherwise well covered there; I also gave it a slightly better introduction. --LDC
This article needs to take into account that the international morse code that is used today is not the same as the telegraphic system that Samuel F. B. Morse created (which was based on numbers). The story is to be found in William Pierpoint's The Art And Skill of Radio-Telegraphy. Sorry, I don't have time to write it up right now, maybe later. -ARJ
it would be nice to have american railroad code here as a table as well as international code. If I get to it I'll add it
Just saw this - an anagram of "The Morse code" is "Here comes dots". Well, I found it amusing... -- Jim Regan 03:17 17 Jul 2003 (UTC)