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

[Bob Eager]

On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 15:15:41 -0700, Johnny Billquist wrote:

> 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

ISTR that it did horrible things with backslashes to indicate which were 
upper and lower case. None of us ever wanted to use it on as ASR-33, and 
we all tried to use the Olivetti teletypewriters!



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