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1963 ASCII was upper-case only, and many early terminals (notably for Unix, including the Teletype 33) were upper case only. `stty lcase`, which maps upper-case

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1963 ASCII was upper-case only, and many early terminals (notably for Unix, including the Teletype 33) were upper case only. `stty lcase`, which maps upper-case input to lower case, existed early — https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V1/man/man2/stty.2 https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V1/man/man2/stty....