[TUHS] Of login names

Joerg Schilling schily at schily.net
Tue Jul 19 01:50:28 AEST 2016


Doug McIlroy <doug at cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:

> DMR, JFO, RHM convention was well established. Only the affectation
> of lower-case only was new--and that was the fault of unicase Model
> 33. Who wanted to SHOUT EVERYTHING they wrote, or litter it with escapes?

In the 1970s, I had a VT50a at home 12 lines @ 80 cols upper case only.
I used it with a self make 300 baud modem and later got a lower case character 
ROM to sold un top of the upper case character ROM.

So there is more than just one upper case only terminal.

Jörg

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