phil@rice.ARPA (William LeFebvre) (03/13/85)
Yes, there really are crt terminals that need LCASE mode. And there are still people who have to use them. I own a Hazeltine 1400, which only displays things in upper case. If it receives lower case characters, it will map them to upper case before displaying them. Sending lower case is a bit more involved and very difficult and not worth the pain. I cannot yet afford to replace this terminal, and there are a few times when I desparately need to use it. It is times like those that I am very glad LCASE exists. Also, the old H-9 crt terminal from Heathkit (they don't sell it anymore) doesn't cope at all with lower case. It is unfortunate that such terminals were ever manufactured and even more unfortunate that they still exist, but LCASE really does need to be around to support them. Besides, it doesn't get in the way if you don't want it to. To top it all off, I imagine that there are some poor souls out there that still use ASR-33 (or similar) hardcopy terminals. William LeFebvre Department of Computer Science Rice University <phil@Rice.arpa>