When VM got national language support, the default was mixed-case English but there was also UCENG (Upper Case ENGlish). Princeton University used UCENG because they had a ton of user programs that parsed command responses and would need tinkering with mixed-case.
At one point, they received tapes containing a new version of VM, but were sent the mixed-case English language files. Melinda Varian posted to VMSHARE, noting "Fortunately, we're an institution of higher learning and have several professors fluent in upper-case English who were able to translate the messages". Still makes me snicker, having grown up in academia. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List <ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2025 5:14 PM To: ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Re: Is HLASM efficient WAS: Telum and SpyreWAS: Vector instruction performance I was dealing with mixed case long before HLASM; the issues were manageable. YMMV.
