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From: bob@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield)
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Subject: Re: User Interface Standards -- *Keyboards!*
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Date: 14 Jul 89 02:58:52 GMT
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In-reply-to: jcb@frisbee.Sun.COM's message of 13 Jul 89 23:51:26 GMT

In article <115518@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> jcb@frisbee.Sun.COM (Jim Becker) writes:
   [... a reasonable discussion of the need to standardize on a good
   keyboard, and to provide plug compatibility so that favorite
   keyboards could be moved to new machines ...]

I find Jim's commentary especially ironic, in light of the Sun type-4
keyboard.  Check recent discussion on comp.sys.sun/sun-spots regarding
this beastie!

   +		These are my own comments, and do not reflect 		+
   +		the views of Sun in any way, shape or form.		+

Apparently they don't!  Why not talk to others at Sun - perhaps you
can persuade them from the inside of the need to provide options to
the widely-beloved (:-) type-4 buttonbox.