14 Oct
2019
14 Oct
'19
3:37 p.m.
On 2019-10-13 11:17 p.m., Steve Johnson wrote:
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?
Did nobody explain to the executive that, like printed typography for
FIVE HUNDRED years prior, that a character set with lower case would
include BOTH CASES? (Typographic research doesn't claim that lower case
_only_ is easier to read, and there are reasons to believe it is not.)
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From:
"Lars Brinkhoff" <lars(a)nocrew.org>
To:
"Arthur Krewat" <krewat(a)kilonet.net>
Cc:
<tuhs(a)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".