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From: floyd@hayes.ims.alaska.edu (Floyd Davidson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Coding in lowercase - references?
Message-ID: <1990Nov18.020723.915@hayes.ims.alaska.edu>
Date: 18 Nov 90 02:07:23 GMT
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In article <61679@unix.cis.pitt.edu> dtate@unix.cis.pitt.edu (David M Tate) writes:
>In article <1990Nov17.013754.10134@ico.isc.com> rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn) writes:
>>parks@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU writes:
>>>      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.
>
>Exactly.  Thanks Dick.
>

No.  The point got missed.  The fact that something was discovered/
invented/researched to death or whatever some hundreds of years ago
certainly would not stop IBM from discovering/inventing/researching
it to death again, and 1) finding the truth was true, and 2) doing
it the wrong way anyway.

(Sorry for the IBM bashing, but 1) its fun, and 2) that was the
point of the original post... IMHO).

Floyd


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