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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.terminals
Subject: Re: ESC key on VT200 and VT300 terminals.
Message-ID: <15891@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 18 Apr 91 17:16:00 GMT
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In article <9104172248.AA10611@cwns9.INS.CWRU.Edu> ak104@cleveland.Freenet.Edu writes:
>  What's the deal here?

The deal is that when the first VT2xx models were designed, DEC opted
to follow some European "ergonomic keyboard standard".  As a result,
the VT220 keyboard is without doubt one of the worst I have ever
encountered.  The VT100 was one of the best.  By the way, DEC seems
to have established over a half dozen "DEC keyboard standards" during
the days when I was still paying any attention to what DEC was doing.