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Actually - kind of - I agree with you... 6-bit is the criteria. Although I have never heard of a strictly lower case hardware platform.
:I think that is because older devices such as the teletype ksr-33 (or a selectric with an APL type ball or any of a variety of others) would only print upper case. (The teletype handled ascii but lower case letters looked like upper case characters.
BTW: The first time I encountered such a computer, it was a [[wp:Prime Computer|Pr1me]] I remember trying being rather bamboozled about how to get the damned thing out of uppercase, including looking for a toggle under the keyboard. It took a little while to dawn on me that it could ''only'' '''do''' upper case. The [[wp:ZX80|ZX80]] code was also UPPERCASE, the ZX was so nice to program that the UPPERCASE restriction didn't seem to matter.
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