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Article #17Re: What do we REALLY want?
From: Roy Smith
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1985 20:32
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1985 20:32
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Referring to the VT-220:
> I'm sure that the designer of this keyboard (and all the others)
> thought that he or she had good reasons for using this layout. I
> happen to disagree.
>
> Charlie Sorsby, {cmcl2,ihnp4}!lanl!crs
I agree with Charlie. After an infinite variety of keyboard
layouts by various manufacturers, DEC had finally come up with a de-facto
standard with the VT-100 layout (also on the LA-120's, etc.) So why change
it?
The return key is off in right field somewhere, the business with
the "<>,." keys looses badly, and if you are running emacs, you have to go
hunting for the escape key.
But then, what does this have to do with internationalization?
--
Roy Smith <allegra!phri!roy>
System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016
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