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From: ghe@nucthy.physics.orst.edu (Guangliang He)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: New Extended Keyboards
Message-ID: <22160@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>
Date: 28 Dec 90 19:23:08 GMT
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In article <1990Dec28.154627.23654@terminator.cc.umich.edu> Gavin_Eadie@UM.CC.UMich.EDU (Gavin Eadie) writes:
= 
= I started to experiment. I discovered that, if you type really fast, 
= taking the best advantage of key rollover, the keyboard really *does* jam 
= temporarily. I got back to Mac DTS with instructions on exactly how to 
= reproduce the problem. This time they tried it and got it to happen for 
= them too. There was no workaround (except type more slowly), the bug was 
= suspected in the keyboard ROM and probably would not be there in the next 
= keyboard.
= 
= When I got System 7.0 beta 1, I tested for this again (just to see if it 
= was system related) and discovered it was still present. I passed this 
= information to Apple and got a snotty reply from DTS.
= 

Of course the problem is still there. That is the main reason why system 7.0
has been delayed so looooong. Simply because the apple programmer can't type
fast enough. :-(
                            Guangliang He

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