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From: knudsen@ihnss.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.6809
Subject: Coco Keyboards and OS-9
Message-ID: <1779@ihnss.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 1-Nov-83 18:44:59 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov  1 18:44:59 1983
Date-Received: Fri, 4-Nov-83 03:30:49 EST
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, Il
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A while back I porrmouthed the makers of aftermarket keyboards
for not including the []\ symbols in marking the keys.  Well, they
were right.  OS9 has not only moved these three from their original
Coco locations, OS9 even redefines some of the arrows -- right-arrow
now means "home and clear".  Plus, we can now type all those great C
symbols {|~}.   Any bets how soon somebody markets a keyboard upgrade
with keytops labeled for OS?  How about an overlay (for us guys with
the old calculator-style keyboard -- one advantage of it)?

I wish OS9 had defined some control chars to agree with PDP-10 or CP/M
or UN*X or *something*.  Oh well, I like their function for Control-C,
which switches a foreground job to background (presumably after you've
answered enuf of its prompts and verified that it opened its files OK,
etc).  Can you do that on "real" UN*X?  mike k