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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Great Runes</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../G.html" title="G"/><link rel="previous" href="Great-Renaming.html" title="Great Renaming"/><link rel="next" href="Great-Worm.html" title="Great Worm"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Great Runes</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Great-Renaming.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">G</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Great-Worm.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Great-Runes"/><dt xmlns="" id="Great-Runes"><b>Great Runes</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Uppercase-only text or display messages. Some archaic operating
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systems still emit these. See also <a href="../R/runes.html"><i class="glossterm">runes</i></a>,
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<a href="../S/smash-case.html"><i class="glossterm">smash case</i></a>, <a href="../F/fold-case.html"><i class="glossterm">fold case</i></a>.</p></dd><dd><p>There is a widespread legend (repeated by earlier versions of this
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entry, though tagged as folklore) that the uppercase-only support of
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various old character codes and I/O equipment was chosen by a religious
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person in a position of power at the Teletype Company because supporting
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both upper and lower cases was too expensive and supporting lower case only
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would have made it impossible to spell ‘God’ correctly. Not
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true; the upper-case interpretation of teleprinter codes was well
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established by 1870, long before Teletype was even founded.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Great-Renaming.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Great-Worm.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Great Renaming </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Great Worm</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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