Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/28/84 based on 9/17/84; site hammer.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!mhuxv!mhuxh!mhuxj!mhuxn!ihnp4!drutx!mtuxo!mtunh!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!orca!hammer!seifert From: seifert@hammer.UUCP (Snoopy) Newsgroups: net.internat Subject: Re: What do we REALLY want? Message-ID: <1612@hammer.UUCP> Date: Sun, 3-Nov-85 00:38:17 EST Article-I.D.: hammer.1612 Posted: Sun Nov 3 00:38:17 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 4-Nov-85 03:25:55 EST References: <723@inset.UUCP> <960@erix.UUCP> <1569@hammer.UUCP> <6066@utzoo.UUCP> <1581@hammer.UUCP> <18@diku.UUCP> Reply-To: tekecs!doghouse.TEK!snoopy Organization: The Daisy Hill Puppy Farm Lines: 39 Summary: Certainly not a keyboard the size of a soccer field! In article <18@diku.UUCP> kimcm@diku.UUCP (Kim Christian Madsen) writes: > Can you imagine a keyboard with 65535 different characters available, > *WOUW* (-; I'd rather not, actually. One possibility is that the terminal can *display* any character, but the keyboard remains a reasonable size. There could be an optional second keyboard with additional characters. > Maybe we shall have to wait for the computer which understands human > speech, and then translates the spoken word into the proper characters! This is bound to be unsuitable for many environments. Would be nice to have around when it *was* useable, though! Might be especially handy for portable computers, where the keyboard is already the limiting factor for compactness. > However to use LATIN, japanese, chinese, arabic, hebraian and other > characters types simultaneously on the same keyboard isn't going to > work well. I'd like to see a 'standard western keyboard' that had all the characters for English, German, French, Swedish, etc., plus Greek for math/engr and for APL, a few of the common math symbols, and of course copyright and trademark symbols for all the net lawyers. :-) A few simple graphics characters would be nice. This is possible on a keyboard of reasonable size. Soft keys would allow easy access to a 'few' other characters. (The keyboard I'm using now has 24 (!) extra soft keys. Wish I could load them up with alphas and umlauts and such.) These can be downloaded from the host easily enough. If you need another language like Hebrew or Chinese, plug in a second keyboard. (Presumably in, say China, the Chinese keyboard would be the primary, and the western keyboard the optional one.) Is that better? Auf Wiedersehen, Snoopy (ECS RONIN #901) tektronix!tekecs!doghouse.TEK!snoopy