14 Sep
1998
14 Sep
'98
2:03 p.m.
On Mon, 14 Sep 1998 CLASSICCMP(a)timaxp.trailing-edge.com wrote:
Except what's the purpose of the hardware
lowercase modification if
the first thing you do with it in software is convert to uppercase? :-)
It hooked the command interpreter, not the low-level input routines. It
would only uppercase commands (and I assume it was smart enough to leave
quoted strings alone). Applications would, of course, have mixed case
input available.
-- Doug