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Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 219

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 219. Here are my solutions to them.

1: Wealthy SMS for word document interchange since 1987.

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Rich Text

Wealthy (rich) SMS (text) for word document interchange since 1987 (Rich Text Format was introduced in 1987 as an interchange format for use with Microsoft Word).

2: Higher educational institution and program for many characters since 1988.

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Unicode

Higher educational institution (uni) and program (code) for many characters since 1988 (Unicode was first proposed in 1988 as a text encoding for all the world’s languages).

3: In 1963, 128 Roman characters formed a US standard.

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ASCII

In 1963 (when the first version of the ASCII standard was published), 128 Roman characters formed (it was originally only 128 characters including a basic Roman alphabet) a US standard (initially ASA X3.4-1963, and later an ANSI standard).

The common factor

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They are each standards for text documents.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.