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From: lacsap@plethora.media.mit.edu (Pascal Chesnais)
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Subject: Those Damn Keyboards
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Date: 7 Feb 91 01:19:57 GMT
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I just got this via e-mail as part of a mailing sent to lots of people
from Ronald_Weissman@next.com... It really bothers me... I think
it will bother you too...  Too bad they did not have a lengthy
discussion with their customers.

ISO KEYBOARDS - JUST SAY NO!!!
Bring back the "Classic Keyboard"!

pasc

V. QUESTIONS ABOUT NeXT

The NeXT keyboard

As you may know, NeXT changed its keyboard when we began shipping the
NeXTstation and the '040-based NeXTcube. As NeXT has grown and
expanded distribution channels, it's become important that we be able
to ship our systems to Europe and other parts of the world.  In
Europe, there are much more stringent ISO standards for keyboard
layouts.  Our original keyboard did not meet those standards.

One of the key requirements was that the return key had to be "L"
shaped.  To accomplish this, one of the keys had to be removed and the
key codes remapped.  In lengthy discussions with our engineers and our
European and Asian teams, the new key layout was approved.

During this transition period, you may recommend to the UNIX folk that
they remap their keyboard.  In the developer directory, there is an
application called Keyboard which allows anyone to remap the keyboard.