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From: corbett@lupa.Eng.Sun.COM (Robert Corbett)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: lowercase letters, was Re: semicolon
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Date: 15 Nov 90 03:12:28 GMT
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In article <2795@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> wsb@boise.Eng.Sun.COM (Walt Brainerd) writes:
>> 
>On the front cover of my copy of the first Fortran manual IBM produced
>for the IBM 704, it says "Fortran"  (cap "F", lowercase "ortran").
>--
>Walt Brainerd        Sun Microsystems, Inc.

At the top of each page of the seminal paper by Backus, et. al.
it says FOTRAN, all caps, only one 'R.'

					Yours truly,
					Bob Corbett