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CDC...if it was like the CDC system I worked on back in the early 80s, the 6-bit chars (64 distinct chars, including control chars) did not include lower case Latin. Our system was munged so that lower case alphabetic chars could be represented by prefixing a backslash. I wrote my dissertation on that system, and fortunately the editor I used displayed a backslashed char as lower case.



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