diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst index ca5ec1b..59dbdaf 100644 --- a/README.rst +++ b/README.rst @@ -412,7 +412,7 @@ a competitor with Unix on the PDP-11. .. _compatibility with MS-DOS: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365247(v=vs.85).aspx .. _heavily influenced by CP/M: http://dosmandrivel.blogspot.com/2007/08/is-dos-rip-off-of-cpm.html -Why did RT-11 to use case-insensitive filenames? +Why did RT-11 use case-insensitive filenames? Because it didn't use ASCII for filenames, it used an encoding called `RADIX-50`_ to save memory. It also used three-character extensions.