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From: mike@BRL.ARPA (Mike Muuss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: 4D Keyboard
Message-ID: <8712102113.aa02295@SEM.BRL.ARPA>
Date: 11 Dec 87 02:13:10 GMT
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Today I had my first opportunity to use an Iris-4D ("clover").  It seems
very fast on some things.

My objection for the day is the keyboard.  The location of the CTRL and
CAPS LOCK keys is *awful*.  Obviously nobody at SGI uses EMACS.

It's sooooo bad, I log in to the 4D from my SUN!  At $4k, a Sun-3/50
isn't too expensive to use as a keyboard for a $80k workstation, but
I would have expected better from the makers of $80k workstations.

Sigh.  Human engineering is dead.
	-Mike