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From: John Levine
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2018 06:00

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In article <14be8814-bfb8-47c4...@googlegroups.com> you write:
>But you wouldn't write a C program on a card punch, as they didn't support lower-case, never mind
>trying to use vi from one.

Of course card punches could do lower case.  It just took a while.


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