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		Torwald on Aug 4, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Art of README (2020) README.TXT ist not all uppercase because of anything Unix, but because VAX/VMS had six dot three chars long file names and all of them upper case.

eesmith on Aug 4, 2022 [–]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/README points out that "README.TXT" was used in 1974 at http://pdp-10.trailing-edge.com/decus_20tap3_198111/01/decus..., which predates VAX/VMS by a couple of years.

That was for a DECsystem-10, so still DEC, just a bit earlier.

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