From: "Steve Johnson" <scj@yaccman.com>
To: "Lars Brinkhoff" <lars@nocrew.org>, "Arthur Krewat" <krewat@kilonet.net>
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] God vs god (was Upper/Lower at DEC)
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2019 15:17:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3c4014d4052d6fe3afb97bdb89a4d22c7854059b@webmail.yaccman.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7wpnj2wpzy.fsf@junk.nocrew.org>
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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>
To:"Arthur Krewat" <krewat@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".
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2019-10-12 0:04 ` [TUHS] Fwd: Curious Question from the Ether about use of Upper and Lower case at DEC Clem cole
2019-10-12 0:23 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-10-12 4:24 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2019-10-12 5:35 ` Angelo Papenhoff
2019-10-13 22:17 ` Steve Johnson [this message]
2019-10-14 9:37 ` [TUHS] God vs god (was Upper/Lower at DEC) Toby Thain
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