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Subject: Re: User Interface Standards -- *Keyboards!*
Keywords: keyboards,standardize,plug-n-play,freedom
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Date: 14 Jul 89 20:14:01 GMT
References: <115518@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Reply-To: marv@ism780.UUCP (Marvin Rubenstein)
Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Santa Monica CA
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In article <115518@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> jcb@frisbee.Sun.COM (Jim Becker) writes:
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>	The _Keyboard_ is the main interface mechanism that *all*
>computer users utilize to harness their machines, yet the user is
>subject to the whims of the manufacturer or the particular hardware
>vendor.

The Feb. 1868 issue of CACM, page 126, has an article titled "Proposed USA
Standard, General Purpose Alphanumeric Keyboard Arrangement for Information
Interchange".  An editor's note says "The proposed American standard has been
accepted for final letter ballot and concurrent publication by a Subcommittee
of the USA Standards Institute".  I don't know the outcome of that ballot.

However, even if it was approved, it would not help C programers because
the locationsof the characters [ ] \ | { } ^ were not prescribed.

    Marv Rubinstein