Apple ][ keyboard encoder

From: CLASSICCMP_at_timaxp.trailing-edge.com <(CLASSICCMP_at_timaxp.trailing-edge.com)>
Date: Mon Sep 14 20:48:05 1998

>You're making some of it up. DOS intercepted the command line input and
>only parsed out DOS commands. If it didn't recognize a DOS command it
>passed the line off to BASIC. His DOS enhancement COULD have converted
>any lowercase command line to uppercase before passing it on to BASIC so
>it wouldn't puke.

That's the way I interpreted his description of the action.

>That's entirely doable and would be rather elegant.

Except what's the purpose of the hardware lowercase modification if
the first thing you do with it in software is convert to uppercase? :-)

The only software that I extensively used on a Apple II that dealt with
lowercase characters was Paul Lutus's _Applewriter II_. A very excellent
editor, with what amounts to almost "regular expression" search and
replace. If only EMACS (Eight Megabytes and Continually Swapping?
Escape-Meta-Alt-Control-Shift?) were as lean and mean!

Tim.
Received on Mon Sep 14 1998 - 20:48:05 BST