Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!BRL.ARPA!mike 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 Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 12 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