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and how and why one platform won over the other. The APC series is of encyclopedic relevance and is notable beyond any doubt. Its character set is only one aspect, but from our perspective today, character sets are part of the "interface" needed to know to access and interpret old data and programs. This is important not only for historical research, but also for computer forensics and for implementors dealing with system or database development or internationalization issues. Therefore, character sets of mass-produced computers and devices as well as those of significant solitaire machines (like those of the main-frame era) are in general important encyclopedic information that needs to be preserved and that people are expecting to find in
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separate from the main articles about their platform helps not to clutter those main articles with huge tables (and to distract from character set issues for those interested in character sets), it also allows easier cross-linking between related character sets, and gives more room for future expansion, f.e. adding conversion lists to
Unicode (where possible), an often sought after info today. In some cases character sets also have histories and uses beyond those related to their main platform. This can be described in a dedicated article about a character set, but might be off-topic in a generic platform article. So, in order to try and keep a similar format for all character set articles it is desireable to keep the NEC APC character set article as a separate article as well.
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It may be "just" a table of characters to you, who is obviously not interested in this information. However, exactly this table of characters is of major interest to people carrying out data/program conversions, doing computer forensics, or dealing with internationalization issues. They are also
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