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Re: DEC workstation user feedback

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From: zrepachol
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 18:56
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In article <Bz5MA5.6F2@news.iastate.edu>, john@iastate.edu (John Hascall) writes:
> przemek@rrdstrad.nist.gov (Przemek Klosowski) writes:
> }Here's my two pennies: I wish DEC did away with this righteous sticking to
> }the idea that ESC _must_ only  be the beginning of an escape sequence,
> }and added an ESC key to their keyboards. It is just silly NOT to have
> }a hardware escape key, while  providing multiple options in software to 
> }configure escape on either F11 or ~ or ...
> 

Yeah, nearly 10 years since the VT2xx crap, and its only a marginal frob better.
BTW, ring your friendly salek and try to get a set of right-minded keycaps to
put on the re-configured keyboard. It makes for some Xmas fun and frivolity. God
how I would like to stick it on the end of a mega-buck order and add 'partial
shipment not aceptable'.

~Paul
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