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Article #29391Re: keyboards (was Re: Idea for new MacIntosh Editor)
From: David A. Rabson
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 1988 14:24
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 1988 14:24
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Ralph Hyre rates various keyboards by layout (not taking things like the VT100's unreliablity and stiffness into account). I agree with all of his classifications but one: the PC/RT (rated worse-than-bad). The keyboard as labeled is horrible, but it's so easy to remap SHIFT-LOCK to control and "`" to ESCAPE that it hardly matters. Try to do that with the VT200 series. We should do whatever we can to encourage hardware designers to implement such soft keyboards; this means no mechanical shift-lock keys, among other things. davidra@helios.tn.cornell.edu David Rabson Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics Clark Hall, Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853-2501
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!oddjob!uwvax!husc6!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!cornell!batcomputer!davidra From: davidra@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (David A. Rabson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.editors Subject: Re: keyboards (was Re: Idea for new MacIntosh Editor) Message-ID: <5325@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Date: 28 Jun 88 14:24:17 GMT References: <5024@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <Jun.5.02.10.06.1988.3586@constance.rutgers.edu> <241@pvab.UUCP> <2086@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Reply-To: davidra@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (David A. Rabson) Distribution: comp Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY Lines: 17