Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pyrdc!pyrnj!esquire!sbb
From: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Third party keyboards for the Mac
Message-ID: <449@esquire.UUCP>
Date: 30 Jun 88 15:48:28 GMT
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Reply-To: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten)
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In article <5223@super.upenn.edu> hodas@eniac.seas.upenn.edu.UUCP (Josh Hodas) writes:
>Not that I really want to start a massive netwar on the human factors of key-
>boards, but why is 'next to the "A"' the right place for the control key?  I 
>suspect it is only because that is the way it was on the keyboard you learned
>on.

This is true, although the real reason is that I have 2 other keyboards at
work, and that's where the control key is on both of them.  Like I said, I
have enough trouble going between emacs and vi occasionally; let's not
compound the problem.

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