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@b0rk @oclsc You might want to read this bio of Fred Brooks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Brooks)—he said that the decision to use 8-bit bytes on the IBM S/360, to permit use of lower-case letters, was his most important. (Aside: Brooks, who died last November, was one of my mentors. Saturday, I was in North Carolina for a "professional memorial" to him, about which I may post more later. For more on my relationship with him, see https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/blog/2022-11/2022-11-18.html).