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

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From:
"Lars Brinkhoff" <lars@nocrew.org>

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"Arthur Krewat" <krewat@kilonet.net>
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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".