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Article #5054Re: lower case (Re: 7 track tape)
From: pet... Peter Deutsch
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 1990 00:49
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 1990 00:49
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In article <1990Oct9.1...@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>, fl...@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal) writes: > aduncan@rhea.trl.oz (Allan Duncan) writes: > >There were some strange souls in this world that thought that _lower_ > >case characters should be used on computers, as there were _users_ who > >didn't like being shouted at all the time :-) > > Yes, but if you no longer use upper case, you can still get by with six bits. > I understand why some devices were *monocase*, but in many cases there was no > justification for that one case being upper case. Sure there is, even if it is a little brain-dead. Upper case only means never having to provide true decending characters. This used to be a big deal. - peterd ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ +-------+ Peter Deutsch McGill University | u # u | pet...@cs.mcgill.ca School of Computer Science |/\/\/\/| | a a | \ a / SMILEYS??? We don't need no STEENKING SMILEYS!!! \___/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!sunic!uupsi!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!clyde.concordia.ca!mcgill-vision!quiche!opus!peterd From: pet...@opus.cs.mcgill.ca (Peter Deutsch) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: lower case (Re: 7 track tape) Summary: Sure there is... Message-ID: <2365@opus.cs.mcgill.ca> Date: 11 Oct 90 00:49:09 GMT References: <2281@charon.cwi.nl> <2328@trlluna.trl.oz> <1990Oct9.104615.28304@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Lines: 25 Posted: Thu Oct 11 01:49:09 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit