Great Runes

   Uppercase-only  text  or  display  messages.  Some  archaic operating
   systems  still  emit  these.  See  also  {runes}, {smash case}, {fold
   case}.

   There  is  a  widespread legend (repeated by earlier versions of this
   entry,  though tagged as folklore) that the uppercase-only support of
   various  old  character  codes  and  I/O  equipment  was  chosen by a
   religious  person  in  a  position  of  power at the Teletype Company
   because  supporting  both upper and lower cases was too expensive and
   supporting  lower  case  only  would have made it impossible to spell
   `God'   correctly.   Not   true;  the  upper-case  interpretation  of
   teleprinter  codes was well established by 1870, long before Teletype
   was even founded.

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[Reference(s) to this entry by made by: {runes}]