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From: rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Coding in lowercase - references?
Summary: why is it always IBM???
Message-ID: <1990Nov17.013754.10134@ico.isc.com>
Date: 17 Nov 90 01:37:54 GMT
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parks@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU writes:
>      Well, I haven't a reference for this, but, hey, this is
> alt.FOLKLORE.computers, so why should I let a lack of hard facts slow
> me down.  :^)

Fair warning.  (Well, one of the two targets is ...folklore...)

>      The way I remember the story, IBM did a study on the comparative
> readabilities of upper- and lower-case text.  It was found that lower-
> case text was the more readable,...

AArrgghhh!!! Why do the legends always have it that IBM invented/discover-
ed/studied everything???

It's long-established knowledge in typography that lower case is more
readable...it probably far predates IBM's very existence.
-- 
Dick Dunn     rcd@ico.isc.com -or- ico!rcd       Boulder, CO   (303)449-2870
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