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Re:Why did older computers and OSes use UPPER case instead o... by 3cats-in-a-coat on Thursday December 14, 2023 @06:47PM (#38649101)
It's only jarring if the rest of the context is not all caps. Precisely zero people in the 80s complained that their VCR is shouting at them because its display is all caps letters.

Also in older computers, fonts were designed for all caps text. And it was fine:

https://www.leucht.com/photos-new/var/resizes/appleiie/30.JP...

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