Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac:17613 comp.editors:219 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!oddjob!ncar!ames!ll-xn!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!cornell!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!ius3.ius.cs.cmu.edu!ralphw From: ralphw@ius3.ius.cs.cmu.edu (Ralph Hyre) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.editors Subject: keyboards (was Re: Idea for new MacIntosh Editor) Message-ID: <2086@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Date: 28 Jun 88 00:18:56 GMT References: <5024@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu><241@pvab.UUCP> Sender: netnews@pt.cs.cmu.edu Distribution: comp Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 33 In article <241@pvab.UUCP> robert@pvab.UUCP (Robert Claeson) writes: >In article , gaynor@constance.rutgers.edu (Silver) writes: > >> It's amazing that keyboard layouts have not been standardized. > >I saw some prototype layout for some ISO or some-such standard >one or two years ago. It looked much like the IBM AT-3 or maybe >DEC VT220 keyboard. Omigod, could it be that the ESC-key-in-the-right place isn't even a standard somewhere? Better get cracking! I assumed that it would at least be some sort of ANSI standard, since DEC's VT100 sported was ANSI-compatible escape sequences. Now that its defacto-standardness is going away I'm real sad. Feel free to add to this list, so I know what equipment to avoid. I'm rating more by layout than feel: Good Bad Worse DEC VT100 TTY KSR33 VT220 Apple //e Apple ][+ Apple extended keyboard IBM PC IBM PC/AT PC/RT (and probably all PS/2's) Apple standard keyboard Mac/Mac+ New PC/AT (AT-3 type) (for Mac SE, Mac ][, and Apple //GS) Sun-3 Symbolics LISMs -- - Ralph W. Hyre, Jr. Internet: ralphw@ius2.cs.cmu.edu Phone:(412)268-{2847,3275} CMU-{BUGS,DARK} Amateur Packet Radio: N3FGW@W2XO, or c/o W3VC, CMU Radio Club, Pittsburgh, PA