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Article #744Re: In search of a sane keyboard standard
From: Alan J Rosenthal
Date: Mon, 12 May 1986 15:55
Date: Mon, 12 May 1986 15:55
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Many people seem to be concluding that we can't come up with a standard
at all because there are so many different interests involved. I think that
we can probably come up with some standards, even if not an entire keyboard,
because of the simple fact that too many keyboard designers get too creative
and change a usual placement of a key in a way which gains negligible advantage
but disturbs many people accustomed to its old location.
Some example standards MIGHT be:
- no key between the left shift and Z keys
- control and caps-lock in the standard order
- two keys between the L and RETURN keys
- BREAK key away from main board
- arrows in meaningful physical order
and so on. I think it would be productive for people to propose these sorts of
individual, smaller things, rather than everything at once.
Alan J Rosenthal
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site utcs.uucp Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utcs!flaps From: flaps@utcs.uucp (Alan J Rosenthal) Newsgroups: net.info-terms,net.internat Subject: Re: In search of a sane keyboard standard Message-ID: <1234@utcs.uucp> Date: Mon, 12-May-86 11:55:58 EDT Article-I.D.: utcs.1234 Posted: Mon May 12 11:55:58 1986 Date-Received: Mon, 12-May-86 12:11:28 EDT References: <824@cyb-eng.UUCP> <804@bentley.UUCP> Reply-To: flaps@utcs.UUCP (Alan J Rosenthal) Organization: University of Toronto Lines: 20