Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ns-mx!iowasp.physics.uiowa.edu!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!gillies From: gillies@cs.uiuc.edu (Don Gillies) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Message-ID: <1990Dec18.005257.25877@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 18 Dec 90 00:52:57 GMT Sender: news@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 25 Re: The new mac key board has a brain-damaged key layout pattern. >Look at a program called Escape. One option switches the escape and tilde >keys. It costs $20-$30 (I'm going to wait for someone to come out with a >shareware or PD version). I really believe that the person responsible for >this problem should be fired! (After all, that person had to WORK to get >this changed, otherwise it would have been easier to keep it the same.) I am sure the person responsible for this problem has been PROMOTED. He has done an immense service to Apple, and commercial software vendors such as the makers of "suitcase", etc. He made the hardware change and Bam! Instant market for keyboard-fixing software! In the long run, this will bring money to the software vendors which will be funneled into new editions of useful mac programs which will drive up sales of the macintosh which will increase Apple's market share! Now if apple were to release a clean design, then shareware / commercial vendors could not write useless software to fix the brain - dead-ed-ness of the new product, and they would all go out of business. 8-). Don W. Gillies, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois 1304 W. Springfield, Urbana, Ill 61801