Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tank!ncar!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!stormy.atmos.washington.edu!jeff From: jeff@stormy.atmos.washington.edu (Jeff Bowden) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: keyboards (was Re: Don't Bash Suns) Message-ID:Date: 23 Sep 88 19:51:54 GMT References: <358@island.uu.net> <626@mace.cc.purdue.edu> <4210@thorin.cs.unc.edu> <466@quintus.UUCP> <740@mace.cc.purdue.edu> Sender: news@beaver.cs.washington.edu Distribution: comp Organization: Ministry of Silly Walks Lines: 25 In-reply-to: mtr@mace.cc.purdue.edu's message of 23 Sep 88 15:57:21 GMT 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).