From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [45.79.103.53]) by inbox.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 17faafde for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2019 09:37:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id AE5CC9BD5D; Mon, 14 Oct 2019 19:37:52 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 339979BB00; Mon, 14 Oct 2019 19:37:24 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 27A089BB00; Mon, 14 Oct 2019 19:37:21 +1000 (AEST) Received: from kvm5.telegraphics.com.au (kvm5.telegraphics.com.au [98.124.60.144]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4B3F9BA32 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2019 19:37:20 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mbp.local (unknown [10.210.249.6]) by kvm5.telegraphics.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AAC323E2D; Mon, 14 Oct 2019 05:37:17 -0400 (EDT) To: Steve Johnson , Lars Brinkhoff , Arthur Krewat References: <3c4014d4052d6fe3afb97bdb89a4d22c7854059b@webmail.yaccman.com> From: Toby Thain Openpgp: preference=signencrypt Message-ID: <906baa19-11b4-fef3-d853-0b17eb200c3f@telegraphics.com.au> Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2019 10:37:16 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.9.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3c4014d4052d6fe3afb97bdb89a4d22c7854059b@webmail.yaccman.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [TUHS] God vs god (was Upper/Lower at DEC) X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" 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" > > To: > "Arthur Krewat" > Cc: > > 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". >