Re: Connect Type 5 keyboard to Sun 4c

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From: Thad Floryan
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 00:00

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weinberg@eng.sun.com (Glenn Weinberg) wrote:
| In article <admM1.526$Ge.1223903@ptah.visi.com>, merlyn@visi.com (Doug McIntyre) writes:
| >cdewick@lios.apana.org.au (Craig Dewick) writes:
| >>A type-5 keyboard will work just fine with no software or hardware changes
| >>on your SS2 and IPC. Some of the extra keys won't do anything, but otherwise
| >>it'll be fine. Type-5 kbd's identify themselves as type-4's at power-on
| >>apparently.
| >
| >Or the older ROM's can't tell the difference between them since the
| >keyboards overall electronicaly are simular. 
| 
| Type 5's use the Type 4 ID specifically to support backward compatibility
| with older PROMs.
| 
| 	Regards,
| 
| 	Glenn

Interestingly, I just fired-up XKeyCaps on a Sun4c (IPX) running SunOS 4.1.3
and the keyboard layout was drawn correctly and identified as:

        Sun type 5 (MIT layout)

That IPX's OBP is 525-1177-06 Release 2.9 Version 20 created 92/10/12 15:10:58

Given some of the nonsense permeating comp.sys.sun.admin re: Sun's keyboard
layouts, for the record, then, "MIT layout" = Sun UNIX-style keyboard (and
may Sun continue making these forever! :-)

Thad

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