4 Aug
2014
4 Aug
'14
10:15 p.m.
On Aug 4, 2014, at 20:04, scj(a)yaccman.com wrote:
The model 33 Teletypes that were the most common
terminal attached to Unix
in the early days had only a single case, as I recall, being primarily
used with paper tape with a character set closely related to the character
set used on punched cards (although with some features that eventually
become supported in ASCII). Unix, however, interpreted the "letters" in
the character set as lower case by default, which was highly unusual at
that time, since there were almost no printers or terminals that would
print upper and lower case.
I vaguely remember the DEC LA 30(?) we had as a console to the
11/45. It would only print Upper Case.
Related to this is the stty -lcase option that mapped lower case
char to upper (or the other way around, I forgot)
jaap