On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:18:02 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
>
>>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]
>
CDC (not IBM) started with 6 bits and later added shift in/out to
support lower case.
>[1] Anybody know whether Stretch had code points for lower case?
>
Yes. This guy:
http://www.bobbemer.com/P-BIT.HTM
-- gil
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