14 Oct
2019
14 Oct
'19
4:17 a.m.
There is a story (or perhaps an urban legend) that mainframe computers
used all upper case, in spite of research showing lower case was
easier to read, because some executive said "But with all lower case,
we can't spell God's name right". Anybody able to put some reality
behind that?
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lars Brinkhoff" <lars(a)nocrew.org>
To:"Arthur Krewat" <krewat(a)kilonet.net>
Cc:<tuhs@tuhs.org>
Sent:Sat, 12 Oct 2019 04:24:01 +0000
Subject:Re: [TUHS] Fwd: Curious Question from the Ether about use of
Upper and Lower case at DEC
Arthur Krewat wrote:
While BAH was more involved in PDP-10 stuff, I wonder
what her take
is
on this.
I don't think there ever was a lower case "pdp10" on the machines.
From what I see, it was "PDP-10", "decsystem10", "DECSYSTEM
20",
or "DECSYSTEM 2020".