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From: bson@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu (Jan Brittenson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Keyboards (Re: HP-95LX Review)
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Date: 22 May 91 01:47:55 GMT
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In a posting of [21 May 91 08:01:56 GMT]
   tonl@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com (Ton 't Lam CRC) writes:

 > I saw some years ago a very innovating keyboard called the 'velotype'.
 > The trick was that syllables are type in one stroke.

   After reading this far, I got the impression you were talking about
stenography. No?

 > The trick is that the micro processor checks the syntax.  There will
 > be no word starting with 'ht' so it must be 'th'. ... For some reason
 > this neat keyboard was not recognized by the computer compagnies.

I wonder why...

/* ht.c */
typedef struct _ht_
{
  struct _ht_ *l_ht, *r_ht;
  HT_ID *ht_id;
}
HT;

ht_print(ht)
  HT *ht;
{
  printf("{%lx, %lx}", ht->l_ht, ht->r_ht);
}

;-)

						-- Jan Brittenson
						   bson@ai.mit.edu