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jhgb on Aug 19, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: MIT's “Small ITS” Logo timesharing system

True, I forgot it was created on a upper-case-only PDP. It's just that I never saw this spelling in literature, even in the 1980s.

larsbrinkhoff on Aug 20, 2021 [–]

No PDP was upper-case only. Even the PDP-1 with its FIODEC character set had lower-case.

Many early output devices were upper-case only.

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