Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!yale!spolsky-joel From: spolsky-joel@CS.YALE.EDU (Joel Spolsky) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: keyboards (was Re: Don't Bash Suns) Keywords: keyboards Message-ID: <38994@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> Date: 28 Sep 88 05:23:06 GMT References: <358@island.uu.net> <626@mace.cc.purdue.edu> <4210@thorin.cs.unc.edu> <740@mace.cc.purdue.edu> <278@itcatl.UUCP> Sender: root@yale.UUCP Reply-To: spolsky-joel@CS.YALE.EDU (Joel Spolsky) Organization: Yale University, New Haven, CT Lines: 27 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 | hitZ, 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. +----------------+---------------------------------------------------+ | Joel Spolsky | bitnet: spolsky@yalecs uucp: ...!yale!spolsky | | | arpa: spolsky@yale.edu voicenet: 203-436-1483 | +----------------+---------------------------------------------------+ These opinions are mine. I do not represent Yale University in any way.