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From: tim.newsham@gmail.com (Tim Newsham)
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 08:18:06 -1000
Subject: [TUHS] terminal - just for fun
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On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 8:04 AM,  <scj at yaccman.com> wrote:
> 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.

years later those same rabble rousers would force
unicode on us :)

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