2 Aug
2014
2 Aug
'14
9:37 a.m.
On Saturday, 2 August 2014 at 11:49:02 +1000, Dave Horsfall wrote:
On Fri, 1 Aug 2014, John Cowan wrote:
Hadn't really noticed; I went straight from CP/M to Unix, giving MS-DOS a
miss.
While I'm not convinced I agree with John, this would have predated
CP/M. After all it, and MS-DOS after it, *did* understand lower case.
And the CapSlock key was there on the earliest upper/lower case
keyboards I've seen.
Greg
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Personally I've yet to think of a single use for Caps Lock and Num
Lock.
It was essential in the transition period when keyboards had acquired
upper and lower case but operating systems only understood upper case.