Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!milano!uudell!pmafire!geoff From: geoff@pmafire.UUCP (Geoff Allen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: New Mac Keyboard Message-ID: <1990Oct30.212053.9512@pmafire.UUCP> Date: 30 Oct 90 21:20:53 GMT References: <1590@camex.COM> <1990Oct29.063631.28724@rodan.acs.syr.edu> Organization: WINCO Computer Engineering, INEL, Idaho Lines: 20 wwtaroli@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Bill Taroli) writes: >In article <1590@camex.COM> kent@camex.com (Kent Borg) writes: > >>Control keys should be as obsolete to computers as UPPERCASE >>ONLY...maybe we should banish *both* keys. > >You must not use either traditional BBSes or large computer systems. In many >instances, to properly use a remote system without a Control key would be like >asking you to breathe without lungs. I took the quoted statement to be stating the *ideal*. Not that there is no need for control keys, but that there shouldn't be a need for control keys. Whether you agree with *that* is a different matter. -- Geoff Allen \ Computers are useless. uunet!pmafire!geoff \ They can only give you answers. bigtex!pmafire!geoff \ -- Pablo Picasso