Dave Hansen wrote: > > The date is about right (actually, a little early: ASR-33, 1965; C, > about 1970), but you can't program C on an ASR-33. Keywords are all > lower case, and always have been. "IF" is a syntax error... >
But the Unix terminal drivers of the day for upper case only terminals translated to lower case and you had to enter \A to get an upper case A, and so on. Still hangs around in the stty options iuclc, -iuclc, olcuc and -olcuc - You can make an x-term window look like an old upper case only terminal. I don't know if any still do it, but old unices used to detect on logon if you typed your user name and password in all caps and then turned on the iuclc and olcuc options, assuming that the reason for the all caps was a upper case only terminal - great fun if you hit caps lock by accident. Charles -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list