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From: Guangliang.He@f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Guangliang He)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: New Extended Keyboards
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Date: 29 Dec 90 03:23:08 GMT
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From: ghe@nucthy.physics.orst.edu
Reply-To: ghe@nucthy.PHYSICS.ORST.EDU

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

                            ghe@PHYSICS.ORST.EDU
                            hegl@ORSTVM.BITNET

 + Organization: Dept. of Physics, Oregon State University

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