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From: c8s-an@franny.Berkeley.EDU (Alex Lau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MacPortable has non-ISO keyboard layout
Keywords: ADB keyboard ISO standard option doubble command keys
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Date: 22 Sep 89 17:37:56 GMT
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In article <19748@mimsy.UUCP> folta@tove.umd.edu.UUCP (Wayne Folta) writes:
>If you admit that the Caps Lock key is way oversized and much too prominent,
>while the Control Key is much more used, then why is a sane Control Key
>placement/size a step backwards?

Wait a minute. I know that keyboard layout is a subjective area
of discussion, but in normal usage the Control key is hardly ever
used. It's only in certain kinds of telecommunications where it
gets any significant amount of usage, or if you've programmed it
with Quickeys or something.

Also, for any keyboard worth its salt (so to speak), the caps
lock key is above the shift key. It's that way on all the good
typewriters, it should be that way on my keyboard. It's the
reason I shelled out the bucks for the extended keyboard.

>I believe that all of the keyboards that I have used in the last five
>years have the Control above the shift.  Placing the Control so far from
>the home keys is a real pain for me.  Especially since I don't tend to
>touch type editor control sequences.

Editor control sequences? Ah-hah! More people in the Mac world
use MacWrite than EMACS, you know.

>Anyhow, the keyboard layout you describe sounds exactly like the one I have
>on my SE.  It is evidently the US version of Apple's Standard Keyboard.

>Wayne Folta          (folta@tove.umd.edu  128.8.128.42)

--- Alex
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