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Article #3888Re: DEC workstation user feedback
From: zrepachol
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 18:56
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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Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!network.ucsd.edu!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!cujo!cc.curtin.edu.au!zrepachol From: zrepachol@cc.curtin.edu.au Subject: Re: DEC workstation user feedback Message-ID: <1992Dec14.035612.1@cc.curtin.edu.au> Lines: 17 Sender: news@cujo.curtin.edu.au (News Manager) Organization: Curtin University of Technology References: <2B27754D.9343@news.service.uci.edu> <PRZEMEK.92Dec10160438@rrdstrad.nist.gov> <Bz5MA5.6F2@news.iastate.edu> Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 18:56:12 GMT