Date   : Tue, 07 Feb 2006 16:46:20 +0000
From   : Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk@...>
Subject: Re: Grammar

Andy Armstrong wrote:
> On 7 Feb 2006, at 14:18, Jules Richardson wrote:
>> It's interesting how important case is in written language, and yet 
>> most operating systems have case insensitive filesystems...
> 
> Hardly 'most'.

Well outside of UNIX, many mainframe, mini and home micros were case 
insensitive for simple storage / processing reasons.

Windows 95 I seem to remember is case insensitive, but tends to capitalise the 
first letter of filenames and make the rest lowercase at display time (which 
was *really* annoying!). NTFS I believe preserves case at the filesystem 
level, but not for most interface operations.

And isn't OSX case-insensitive despite being built on a UNIX core?