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From: jeff@stormy.atmos.washington.edu (Jeff Bowden)
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Subject: Re: keyboards (was Re: Don't Bash Suns)
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Date: 23 Sep 88 19:51:54 GMT
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In article <740@mace.cc.purdue.edu> mtr@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Miek Rowan) writes:

>Now I see, going from VT100's to Sun's keyboard would be an improvment!

I agree DECs keyboards have an awful layout.

>One thing, at least Sun didn't put the ESC key all the way up in the 
>corner

another good point.

> It would be nice it the 
>caps lock was between the "a" and control keys.

obviously not an emacs user - I've used keyboards which have this - it drives
me nuts.



Has anyone ever noticed that the Sun spacebar is way too big?  This puts the
left & right meta keys so far off that it is almost too inconvenient to use
them.  Has anyone ever found a use for the those big blocks of function
keys on both sides of the keyboard? They seem to take up a lot of space for
how useless they are, I'd rather have a numeric keypad (yes, I'm sure they
can be reprogrammed but I don't need one *that* badly).