On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 06:24:31PM -0500, Adam Turoff wrote: > Early versions of unix supported monocased terminals. I remember a > professor telling me that if you logged in and your username was > allcaps, the tty would go into a compatability mode AND DISPLAY > EVERYTHING IN UPPERCASE, EXCEPT FOR CAPITAL LETTERS LIKE \A AND \B > WHICH WOULD APPEAR WITH A PRECEDING BACKSLASH. > > He used to work at AT&T and on Multics machines. So it might be true. > Then again, we were undergrads, and he could have been pulling our legs, > too.
He wasn't pulling your leg, Linux still does this. andrew -- Sagittarius: (Nov. 22 - Dec. 21) The stars appreciate that you want to protest rampant corporate corruption, but they don't see what you think the giant puppets are going to accomplish.
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