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From: karish@denali.stanford.edu (Chuck Karish)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: Why the original RT seemed/was slow (was ...)
Summary: Key clicks from shift key are a software problem
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Date: 2 Dec 88 00:04:03 GMT
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Reply-To: karish@denali.stanford.edu (Chuck Karish)
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>The 025, running the software available to me, is about as fast as a SUN 3/50
>while running the Dhrystone program.  However my experience is that an 025
>machine with 4 megs of RAM, a disk, and MACH, is totally useless.  It cannot
>run X10, an xterm, and a single outgoing telnet.

	I don't know about MACH, but this mix of jobs runs fine on
	an 025 running AIX.  X response is a bit sluggish, but not
	unbearably so.

>I absolutely cannot believe that the keyboard clicks when you hit the shift
>or control key.  I wish that the caps lock key and the control key were the
>same size so we could switch the key caps.  Thank you someone for that
>layout.  Everyone here rebinds CTRL to the right place.  And the ESC key??

	The shift and control keys click under ACIS (4.3), but not under
	AIX.  I don't think they clicked under earlier versions of the BSD
	system.  Something is probably wrong with the ACIS tty driver.

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