On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 08:30:40PM +0200, Polytropon wrote:

> On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:21:28 +0100, Chris Rees <utis...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > 2009/4/16 Bruce Cran <br...@cran.org.uk>:
> > > Maybe we should tell FreeBSD to stop shouting too? :)
> > 
> > Actually, we really should! Come on, we're not on teletypes any more.
> 
> Did UPPERCASE LETTERS make the teletype print louder?
> I always assumed they would just consume more disk space...
> RYRYRYRYRYRYRY!!! :-)

Nah, the earliest ones only had upper case.  When they made
upper/lower models, for some reason people just left on shift-lock - 
maybe to make it look the same.

////jerry


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