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Generating NMI from New and Old Keyboards - Answers

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From: Subrata Sircar
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1992 01:45
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Thanks to all of you who wrote.  I quote Mike Paquette for the authoratative answer, although others gave me the same information:

Mike Paquette <Mike_Paquette@NeXT.COM> wrote:
>To generate an NMI on a keyboard that has only one Command
>key, use Command-Left Alternate-~. (Hold down both the
>Command key and the leftmost Alternate key and press the ~
>key. Do not press the Shift key.) To generate an NMI on a
>keyboard that has two Command keys, use Command-Command-~.
>(Hold down both Command keys and press the key at the
>upper left of the numeric keypad.)

A useful thing to know, IMHO.
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