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

[David Froble]

Bob Eager wrote:
> 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!
> 
> 
> 

Don't get me started.  Our 11/40 had the ASR-33 as the console, and yeah, could read 
punched paper tape.  We also had a VT05B to fight over, and a Beehive CRT.  Then we got a 
couple VT52s and thought they were great.  All that shit can stay in a museum or landfill 
as far as I'm concerned.