paulgboul...@aim.com (Paul Gilmartin) writes: > Or do utilities not count as applications? Define "application". Again, > I'm confident that at least one very old application would accept > (define "accept") lower case, at least in comments. And very old > assemblers tolerated lower case in macro arguments, perhaps better > than HLASM does. (But only as long as assemblers supported macros.)
CTSS on ibm7094 used 2741s with upper/lower case ... and at least CTSS document formating utility "runoff" regularly had lowercase. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatible_Time-Sharing_System http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_2741 some of the ctss people went to 5th flr, 545 tech sq and did multics. others went to the science center on the 4th flr and did cp67/cms (first cp40/cms on specially modified 360/40 with virtual memory which then morphs into cp67/cms when standard virtual memory became available with 360/67). misc. past posts mentioning science center http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech ctss runoff http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RUNOFF was ported to cms as "script". GML (for initials of three inventors) was invented at the science center in 1969 and GML tag processing was added to script (in addition to the runoff "dot" controls). misc. past posts mentioning gml http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#sgml a decade later, gml mophs into ISO standard sgml ... and another decade, sgml morphs into html http://infomesh.net/html/history/early one of the first mainstream corporate manuals moved to script was principles of operation. the actual document was the called the architecture redbook (for distribution in red 3-ring manuals). script conditional control governed whether the full redbook was formated or just the principles of operation subsection. -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
