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Article #418Re: Microsoft Keyboard
From: Scott Armstrong
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 1994 20:49
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 1994 20:49
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Cholette Martin (cholette@JSP.UMontreal.CA) wrote: : In article <rsperlin.101.2EA050B3@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> rsperlin@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Richard Sperling) writes: : >Does anyone know what the first key to the left of the righthand Ctrl key does : >on the Microsoft keyboard? Thanks. : >________________________________ : >Richard Sperling|Graduate Fellow : From what I read it is a special Windows key. It will allow you to : execute certain Win functions. I am not too sure how flexible it will be : but MS stated in the article I read that other keyboard manufacturers : are looking to implement the same sort of Winkey (tm?). Chicago will : support Winkey. There will be support for it under Win 3.x. : Bert : cholette@jsp.umontreal.ca : > I have one of the Microsoft keyboards, and I can't find any reference to the functionality of this key. If microsoft intends to support it under 3.x, one would expect that a direct shipment from Microsoft (one week ago) would have some mention of it...
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109e38,edc68ae6c25e4a08 X-Google-Attributes: gid109e38,public X-Google-Thread: 1106e2,edc68ae6c25e4a08 X-Google-Attributes: gid1106e2,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-10-16 19:16:43 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!uunet!newsflash.concordia.ca!canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca!mona.muug.mb.ca!calvin.muug.mb.ca!not-for-mail From: scott@calvin.muug.mb.ca (Scott Armstrong) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,bit.listserv.win3-l Subject: Re: Microsoft Keyboard Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,bit.listserv.win3-l Date: 16 Oct 1994 15:49:57 -0500 Organization: Calvin & Hobbes Lines: 21 Message-ID: <37s3lm$85k@calvin.muug.mb.ca> References: <rsperlin.101.2EA050B3@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <Cxqpop.1M3@cc.umontreal.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: calvin.muug.mb.ca X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL0]