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 References: <5204@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <6500034@hpindda.HP.COM> <444@esquire.UUCP> <5223@super.upenn.edu> Reply-To: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten) Organization: DP&W, New York, NY Lines: 15 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. -- Steve Baumgarten | "New York... when civilization falls apart, Davis Polk & Wardwell | remember, we were way ahead of you." {uunet,cmcl2}!esquire!sbb | - David Letterman