<![CDATA[Ancient Romans wrote everything in upper case, and wrote numbers with letters, because they could only use 5-bit encoding due to severe RAM shortages.]]>Ancient Romans wrote everything in upper case, and wrote numbers with letters, because they could only use 5-bit encoding due to severe RAM shortages.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/d69f659c-c009-4956-85e5-b5f46bedeb65/ancient-romans-wrote-everything-in-upper-case-and-wrote-numbers-with-letters-because-they-could-only-use-5-bit-encoding-due-to-severe-ram-shortages.RSS for NodeFri, 15 May 2026 06:42:05 GMTSun, 03 May 2026 13:48:27 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Ancient Romans wrote everything in upper case, and wrote numbers with letters, because they could only use 5-bit encoding due to severe RAM shortages. on Sun, 03 May 2026 15:22:36 GMT]]>@deshipu thinking about the RAM shortage in imperial Rome caused by the augurs buying out the entire supply of sheepskin parchment

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ioc.exchange/users/flyingsaceur/statuses/116511326605162215https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ioc.exchange/users/flyingsaceur/statuses/116511326605162215Sun, 03 May 2026 15:22:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Ancient Romans wrote everything in upper case, and wrote numbers with letters, because they could only use 5-bit encoding due to severe RAM shortages. on Sun, 03 May 2026 13:56:07 GMT]]>@suetanvil or their C strings, which is the actual reason of the fall of the empire

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/deshipu/statuses/116510986581341849https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/deshipu/statuses/116510986581341849Sun, 03 May 2026 13:56:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Ancient Romans wrote everything in upper case, and wrote numbers with letters, because they could only use 5-bit encoding due to severe RAM shortages. on Sun, 03 May 2026 13:53:21 GMT]]>@deshipu Yes so that's a good reason if RAM prices are high. 😉 They used an escape char to switch back and forth, but no lower case even then.
P.S. I owned a TTY-15 years ago. 😉

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ottawa.place/users/Dianora/statuses/116510975712155384https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ottawa.place/users/Dianora/statuses/116510975712155384Sun, 03 May 2026 13:53:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Ancient Romans wrote everything in upper case, and wrote numbers with letters, because they could only use 5-bit encoding due to severe RAM shortages. on Sun, 03 May 2026 13:52:00 GMT]]>@Dianora It's a 5-bit encoding, no?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/deshipu/statuses/116510970351398350https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/deshipu/statuses/116510970351398350Sun, 03 May 2026 13:52:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Ancient Romans wrote everything in upper case, and wrote numbers with letters, because they could only use 5-bit encoding due to severe RAM shortages. on Sun, 03 May 2026 13:51:00 GMT]]>@deshipu

The concept of zero was different during Roman times, considered a non sequitur.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://theforkiverse.com/ap/users/115874488801031585/statuses/116510966445885839https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://theforkiverse.com/ap/users/115874488801031585/statuses/116510966445885839Sun, 03 May 2026 13:51:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Ancient Romans wrote everything in upper case, and wrote numbers with letters, because they could only use 5-bit encoding due to severe RAM shortages. on Sun, 03 May 2026 13:50:05 GMT]]>@deshipu I always thought it was because of using Baudot (Murray code) instead of ASCII or Unicode.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ottawa.place/users/Dianora/statuses/116510962847060871https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ottawa.place/users/Dianora/statuses/116510962847060871Sun, 03 May 2026 13:50:05 GMT