Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no> wrote:
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| * Kent M Pitman <pitman@world.std.com>
| | Incidentally, if memory serves me, the reason that uppercase was
| | originally the canonical case in computers when character codings were
| | narrow enough to have only one case is that the name of the deity was not
| | to appear in lowercase.
|
| not that I ever discussed religion on the old telex machines...
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Gee, and I thought the deity Kent was referring to was "IBM"... ;-}
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| also my _impression_ that the old Teletype was all lowercase...
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Nope. The KSR-33 & ASR-33 & KSR-35 were uppercase-only. The KSR-37 was
upper/lower, though.
-Rob
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