Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!lethe!yunexus!ists!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!sdd.hp.com!caen!uwm.edu!uwvax!daffy!picard.cs.wisc.edu!sparkie From: sparkie@picard.cs.wisc.edu (Mark J. Horn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Function keys? Keywords: function keys keyboard Message-ID: <1991Feb7.185818.5951@daffy.cs.wisc.edu> Date: 7 Feb 91 18:58:18 GMT References: <3140@unccvax.uncc.edu> <1991Feb7.002337.10397@macc.wisc.edu> Sender: news@daffy.cs.wisc.edu (The News) Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept Lines: 32 In article <1991Feb7.002337.10397@macc.wisc.edu> anderson@dogie.macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes: [ ... ] >I hope NeXT will listen to all these keyboard complaints. >No other machine has ever been launched with such superb >design values as this one, but I think the keyboard was the >weakest part of the design, of any utilitarian point of >view. You should take a look at some of the DEC offerings. In particular there is a DECstation 5000/200 with a vt200 keyboard. It is perhaps the single most brain-damaged keyboard I've ever used. First off, where the key ought to be, are two keys, to the left is the key and to the right is the key. I couldn't count how many times in a day I hit when I mean to hit . Even worse than that, is where the '<' and '>' characters are. Slightly left of the 'Z' key there is another key. Unshifted, that key gives you '<' and shifted it gives you '>'. Where those two characters SHOULD be (above ',' and '.' respectively) just gives you a ',' and '.'! There also isn't an key - you have to hit F11!!! Fortunately, the DECstation is X-based and it remapping the keyboard is fairly straightforward. This is just to let everyone know, that although it's painful to try and find '|' it's not as bad as it could be! - sparkie -- ___ ___ ___ ___ _ _ _ ___ / __\| . \/ . \| . \| |/ /|_|| _ | sparkie@picard.cs.wisc.edu \__ \| __/| || _ /| < | || _[ - or - \___/|_| |_|_||_|\\|_|\_\|_||___| harier!sparkie@cs.wisc.edu