From: Toby Thain <toby@telegraphics.com.au>
To: Steve Johnson <scj@yaccman.com>, 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: Mon, 14 Oct 2019 10:37:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <906baa19-11b4-fef3-d853-0b17eb200c3f@telegraphics.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3c4014d4052d6fe3afb97bdb89a4d22c7854059b@webmail.yaccman.com>
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@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
[not found] <012a01d5808f$0e56dcf0$2b0496d0$@net>
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 ` [TUHS] God vs god (was Upper/Lower at DEC) Steve Johnson
2019-10-14 9:37 ` Toby Thain [this message]
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