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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.terminals
Subject: Re: Seeking vt220 help
Message-ID: <16500@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 22 Jun 91 20:25:26 GMT
References: <1991Jun21.155750.23070@shl.com> <16617@life.ai.mit.edu>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <16617@life.ai.mit.edu> mikc@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Mike Coughlin) writes:
>  The many changes made to the VT-220 from the VT-100 seem to have been done
>by somebody who didn't program.

The idiotic VT-220 keyboard layout was designed to conform to some
European "ergonomic standard" for keyboards.

Many recent keyboard layouts are designed to mimic the IBM PC's,
which has to be one of the worst of all time.