Code page 861 (CP 861, IBM 861, OEM 861) is a code page to be used under MS-DOS to write Icelandic language (as well as other Nordic languages). Code page is the traditional IBM term used for a specific character encoding table: a mapping in which a sequence of bits, usually a single octet representing integer values 0 through 255, is associated with a specific character. ... Microsofts disk operating system, MS-DOS, was Microsofts implementation of DOS, which was the first popular operating system for the IBM PC, and until recently, was widely used on the PC compatible platform. ... Icelandic (Ãslenska) is a North Germanic language spoken in Iceland. ... The Nordic countries (Greenland not shown) The Nordic countries, also referred to as Norden (The North), and as Scandinavia, is a term used collectively for five countries in Northern Europe. ...
Code page layout
Only the upper half (128–255) of the table is shown, the lower half (0–127) being plain ASCII. There are 95 printable ASCII characters, numbered 32 to 126. ...
The 496 pages in this book are numbered with those of the 41 original issues.
They have been edited: most blank pages/cartoons/political pages/copyrights/etc. were deleted so page numbers are either on the outer or inner margin; page size was reduced about 2%".
The book includes all of the lecture dialog from the tape, as well as additional chapters, articles and expanded notes that are not included in the video due to time constraints.
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