Re: Caselessness...

["Peter Hend�n" <phenden@tdab.com>]

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Al Christians wrote:
> Wasn't there originally a requirement to target some machines that
> didn't support upper and lower case characters?  For example, the
> typical printer chains that were used on mainframe printers in the early
> 1980's didn't have lower case characters on them at all. Case sensitive
> would be a major debacle if a machine like that was used to print
> code listings.
As I recall from a seminar with Ichbiah, Barnes and someone else (it
should have been Firth, but he was replaced for some reason), this
was one of the reasons. I also seem to remember that discriminating
names depending on case was out of the question because it was
error prone.

I know I have notes of this somewhere, but going back 20 years is
iffy at best.

Regards,
Peter H.

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