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"  ... both of them in fact.  The current arrow-key layout of non-extended
"  keyboards with horizontal placement for the left and right-direction
"  keys, vertical for the up/ down-movement ones has been replaced by a
"  single line of four arrow keys in a row, below the (now larger)
"  rightmost shift key.
...
"
"  The <ctrl> key seems also to have been moved from the present (on my
"  Swedish SE keyboard) position in the lower left corner up to a level
"  above the shift key, switching positions with the caps-lock key.
                                                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
"  Though the latter's relative importance (based on frequency of usage)
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"  in no way matches its normal, prime position nor the physical size -
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"  usually larger than the shift key - its replacement is another
                                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
"  needlessly reintroduced step backwards as far as I am concerned.
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"  Besides that, the <ctrl> key's ISO-defined, usual placement at the
"  very physically-felt boundary of the keyboard rectangle makes it more
"  easily accessible than from the new position above the left shift key.
"
I was wondering where IBM got the weird keyboard layout for their PS/2s!
I guess that they are ISO-compliant.

If you admit that the Caps Lock key is way oversized and much too prominent,
while the Control Key is much more used, then why is a sane Control Key
placement/size a step backwards?

I believe that all of the keyboards that I have used in the last five
years have the Control above the shift.  Placing the Control so far from
the home keys is a real pain for me.  Especially since I don't tend to
touch type editor control sequences.

Anyhow, the keyboard layout you describe sounds exactly like the one I have
on my SE.  It is evidently the US version of Apple's Standard Keyboard.


Wayne Folta          (folta@tove.umd.edu  128.8.128.42)