NEC APC is an 8-bit character set developed by
NEC for the
NEC APC, a
CP/M-86
CP/M-86 was a version of the CP/M operating system that Digital Research (DR) made for the Intel 8086 and Intel 8088. The system commands are the same as in CP/M-80. Executable files used the relocatable .CMD file format. Digital Research al ...
and
MS-DOS
MS-DOS ( ; acronym for Microsoft Disk Operating System, also known as Microsoft DOS) is an operating system for x86-based personal computers mostly developed by Microsoft. Collectively, MS-DOS, its rebranding as IBM PC DOS, and a few oper ...
-compatible personal computer in 1983.
These were a contemporary competitor for the
IBM PC
The IBM Personal Computer (model 5150, commonly known as the IBM PC) is the first microcomputer released in the IBM PC model line and the basis for the IBM PC compatible de facto standard. Released on August 12, 1981, it was created by a tea ...
, although eclipsed by fully
PC-compatible computers.
Character set
� Not in Unicode, these are combinations of solid and dotted box lines and a mirror-image phi
See also
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NEC PC-9800 series
References
Further reading
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APC
NEC personal computers