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In article <241@pvab.UUCP> robert@pvab.UUCP (Robert Claeson) writes:
>In article <Jun.5.02.10.06.1988.3586@constance.rutgers.edu>, gaynor@constance.rutgers.edu (Silver) writes:
>
>> It's amazing that keyboard layouts have not been standardized.
>
>I saw some prototype layout for some ISO or some-such standard
>one or two years ago. It looked much like the IBM AT-3 or maybe
>DEC VT220 keyboard.

Omigod, could it be that the ESC-key-in-the-right place isn't even
a standard somewhere?  Better get cracking!

I assumed that it would at least be some sort of ANSI standard, since
DEC's VT100 sported was ANSI-compatible escape sequences.
Now that its defacto-standardness is going away I'm real sad. Feel
free to add to this list, so I know what equipment to avoid.

I'm rating more by layout than feel:

Good			Bad		Worse
DEC VT100		TTY KSR33	VT220
Apple //e		Apple ][+	Apple extended keyboard
IBM PC			IBM PC/AT	PC/RT (and probably all PS/2's)
Apple standard keyboard	Mac/Mac+	New PC/AT (AT-3 type)
(for Mac SE, Mac ][, and
Apple //GS)
Sun-3
Symbolics LISMs
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