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From: davidra@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (David A. Rabson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.editors
Subject: Re: keyboards (was Re: Idea for new MacIntosh Editor)
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Date: 28 Jun 88 14:24:17 GMT
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Ralph Hyre rates various keyboards by layout (not taking things like
the VT100's unreliablity and stiffness into account).  I agree with
all of his classifications but one: the PC/RT (rated worse-than-bad).
The keyboard as labeled is horrible, but it's so easy to remap SHIFT-LOCK
to control and "`" to ESCAPE that it hardly matters.  Try to do that
with the VT200 series.

We should do whatever we can to encourage hardware designers to implement
such soft keyboards; this means no mechanical shift-lock keys, among
other things.

				davidra@helios.tn.cornell.edu

				David Rabson
				Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics
				Clark Hall, Cornell University
				Ithaca, NY 14853-2501