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Great Runes
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n. Uppercase-only text or display messages. Some archaic operating systems
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still emit these. See also runes , smash case , fold case. There is a
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widespread legend (repeated by earlier versions of this entry, though tagged
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as folklore) that the uppercase-only support of various old character codes
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and I/O equipment was chosen by a religious person in a position of power at
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the Teletype Company because supporting both upper and lower cases was too
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expensive and supporting lower case only would have made it impossible to
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spell God correctly. Not true; the upper-case interpretation of teleprinter
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codes was well established by 1870, long before Teletype was even founded.
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