> Getting off topic here, but the all caps is probably a holdover from > the old SABRE airline reservation system which used a 6-bit codeset > to reduce the transmission time on their (at the time) slow data links.
Actually it was because the SABRE machines also used a 5-bit code set (and
still largely do). (Assuming of course SABRE was the Sperry rather than IBM
reservation system; I forget which was which.)
Loren
