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From: rbj@dsys.ncsl.nist.gov (Root Boy Jim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: new Sun type-4 keyboards
Keywords: Hardware
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Date: 23 Jun 89 19:09:05 GMT
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? From:    Stephen Gildea <gildea@bbn.com> [The original poster]

? I recognize that good keyboard layout is difficult.  Look at the mess DEC
? made of the VT220, for example.  However, the desirable features have been
? understood for a long time.  Symbolics has had a very nice design for
? about eight years.

I may as well add my 2\(cts to The Great Keyboard Debate...

I haven't seen the alleged /dev/kbd's yet, so I can't comment on them per
se. However, you *could* muck with the translation table.

BTW, DEC got hip with their VT320 (or whatever) terminal. The setup mode
allows you to choose between `/~ and escape, putting the <>'s back where
they belong, and moving the `/~ to where <> are. Now if they would only
allow you to make the compose key into a meta key...

?  < Stephen

	Root Boy Jim is what I am
	Are you what you are or what?