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From: epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re:  L
Summary: CTRL, or lack thereof
Keywords: trivia
Message-ID: <392@wet.UUCP>
Date: 9 Aug 89 12:32:37 GMT
References: <488@sppy00.UUCP> <57028@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Reply-To: epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott)
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Organization: Wetware Diversions, San Francisco
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In article <57028@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Lum Johnson  writes:
>First, find the key on your keyboard marked CONTROL, CTRL, CNTL, CTL,
>or something of that sort.  (The marking may be eccentric on machinery
>from eccentric hardware manufacturers - I hear that it is marked ALT
>on IBM PC keyboards, to confuse those of us who _know_ that ALTMODE is
>(or was until 1968) 033 (octal), now known as ESCAPE.)  It should be
>on the left hand side above the SHIFT key and it is used similarly.

There is a CTRL key on IBM PC keyboards.  THere is also an ALT
key that does something very different.  Perhaps you are thinking
of IBM 3101 terminals?  Note: Some PC keyboards put CAPS LOCK
where CTRL should be, and CTRL on either side of the space bar.

The major PC manufacturer that didn't learn about CTRL until late
in the game was not IBM, but Apple!

(BTW, ALTMODE on old ASR 33s sent 175 octal.)

					-=EPS=-