[Info-vax] Current VMS engineering quality, was: Re: What's VMS up to these

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2012-03-17 15.10, Bob Eager wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 17:53:39 -0400, Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
>
>> The design of the user interface was influenced by the Model 33
>> teletype.
>
> That would be why it uses upper and lower case, then!

Until not long ago, if you entered your username in all uppercase to 
Unix (most any variant), it would enter a mode where all your letters 
were internally converted to lowercase, on the assumption that you were 
sitting at a terminal that did not have lowercase letters... :-)

	Johnny