In <1099194836526387.wa.paulgboulderaim....@bama.ua.edu>, on
12/16/2011
at 11:01 AM, Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> said:
>But the code points that later became lower case
There were none that I know of[1] Those came in with, e.g., ASCII,
EBCDIC. Before that, all IBM computers other than the 7030 used either
a two digit code or a six bit code, with no lower case in either
case[2]
[1] Anybody know whether Stretch had code points for lower case?
[2] Pun deliberate.
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