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Subject: Re: Cases-unsensitive OSes (was: linux issues)

Author: Eugene Nalimov

Date: 19:10:57 05/22/02

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On May 22, 2002 at 20:54:32, Robert Hyatt wrote:

> [...]
>
>windows and its disdain for case-sensitivity is not a good thing.  It was
>done just to "be different" because older systems certainly didn't behave
>like this...  and there are _many_ systems that pre-date ms-dos and windows.
>
> [...]
>
>Not only unix.  I can't think of any operating system that didn't support
>case-sensitivity on keyboard input _except_ for msdos and derivatives...
>This goes back (even) to early programming languages...
>
> [...]

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Eugene



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