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From: madler@pooh.caltech.edu (Mark Adler)
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Subject: Re: Function keys?
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Jess Anderson has this opinion of the NeXT keyboard:
>> The whole thing feels (under the
>> fingers, mainly, but in other ways too) *cheap*.

I agree completely.  As bad as IBM is, the one thing they can do better than
anyone else, by far, is make keyboards.  Before I get flamed, I'm referring
to the construction, quality, and most important, feel--*not* the layouts
(and there have been many).  Maybe this comes from their typewriter heritage.
(Smart alecks out there will be saying: "Typewriter?  What's typewriter?
Some new layout software?)  

Maybe NeXT can use its unholy union with IBM to offer a higher cost, quality
keyboard.  Black, of course.

Mark Adler
madler@pooh.caltech.edu