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In article <27184@life.ai.mit.edu>, tower@raisin-nut.ai.mit.edu (Leonard H. Tower Jr.) writes:
 > Standardizing keyboards layouts is absurd, as there is no standard for
 > the human beings who use them.
  
 > I wish that instead of trying to standardize keyboard layouts, they
 > would standardize the connectors between keyboards and display, and
 > between tracking devices (e.g. a mouse) and the display, so that any
 > keyboard (or tracking device) would work with any display.
 > 
 > That would allow us all to find and use the input devices that work
 > best for each of us.  We could take our own personal input devices
 > from job to job.
 > 
 > It also be a big boon to the disabled.


Check out something called the Access Bus.  It is an attempt to create
a standard interconnect between user I/O devices.  It was designed by
DEC using existing Philips components.  It allows multiple devices (up
to 125?) to be daisy-chained on one shielded cable.  It also allows
hot connect and dis-connect of devices without rebooting the computer.

Wouldn't it be nice to be able to have more than one keyboard and pointing
device on your machine and to be able to take those devices and plug them
into any computer?  <sigh>

						Andrew MacRae