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From: spolsky-joel@CS.YALE.EDU (Joel Spolsky)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: keyboards (was Re: Don't Bash Suns)
Keywords: keyboards
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Date: 28 Sep 88 05:23:06 GMT
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In article <278@itcatl.UUCP> jonathan@itcatl.UUCP (Jonathan Peterson) writes:
| |  One thing, at least Sun didn't put the ESC key all the way up in the 
| |  corner off the main set of keys like IBM.  It would be nice it the 
| |  caps lock was between the "a" and control keys.
| 
| Whatdaya want THAT for?  I don't even want ot talk about how many times I've
| hit  Z, or  D on my vt-100.  What Do I want a Caps lock key for
| anyway?  Put the caps lock on the back of the terminal or something, just
| keep it away from useful keys like  .

Hear hear! biggest mistake on the PS/2 keyboard: the caps lock key is
where the Ctrl key should be. (IBM still makes typewriters.
Backward-compatibility, you know.) I guess people in the MAINFRAME IBM
WORLD and the VAX/VMS WORLD use CAPITAL LETTERS A LOT. must get NOISY.

The only thing more unforgivable is the Symbolics lisp machine, which
has RUBOUT where the ctrl key is supposed to be. Gads. Reason enough
not to buy a Symbolics :-)

BTW if anybody wants a program to change the CapsLock to a Ctrl on a
PS/2 send me mail.

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