On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:13:58 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:48:38 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: >> >>Instead, TSO would convert to lower case. I don't see how that would be >>any better. The proper design would have been to be case independent from >>the get-go; S/360 started with a new, 8 bit, character set. >> >What objective would be served by converting to lower case?
Easier parsing. If everything input is all in one case, it is a bit easier to parse the commands and options entered. >Typewriter keyboards by default generate lower case. Support >for Teletype KSR 33, perhaps? There were many older teletypes before the KSR 33. Fifty years worth of them, if memory serves. All upper case only. -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
