From: utzoo!decvax!cca!APPLE@Mit-Mc@sri-unix Newsgroups: net.micro Title: Jerry Pournelle's Disappointment - (nf) Article-I.D.: sri-unix.2544 Posted: Sun Aug 8 00:20:44 1982 Received: Sun Aug 8 08:37:32 1982 From: James A CoxI'm sorry, but I agree with Pournelle. He made a slight error in saying that there are extra keys between the \space bar/ and the shift key. In any case, however, the shift keys and the Return key ARE farther away than on the standard keyboard, and considering the frequency with which these keys are used, that is quite sufficient to ruin the whole keyboard, at least for touch typists who learned to type on a normal keyboard. Why IBM did this I don't know, since the keyboards on their typewriters are excellent. As for the PC keyboard's good "feel," that can hardly compensate for the bad feeling I get from typing the wrong characters because the keys are misplaced.