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This doesn't make any sense. All filenames were uppercase in DOS so having README in uppercase wouldn't distinguish it visually.
by timbit42 3y ago
This doesn't make any sense. All filenames were uppercase in DOS so having README in uppercase wouldn't distinguish it visually.
- hollerith 3y agoI claim the README convention came from Unix.
- kps 3y agoThis particular question is not about the origin of README files (the earliest documented is from 1974 on TOPS-10) but about why README remains upper case on mixed-case systems (e.g. Unix). Neither has anything to do with MS-DOS. ASCIIbetical order is a good answer (certainly the reason I named things that way) although it doesn't entirely explain README over ReadMe.