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From: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU (The devil himself)
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Subject: Re: Re: Keyboards, ^S, ^Q, and ESC
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Date: Mon, 3-Mar-86 02:44:54 EST
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> This may be your position, and others may share it (I may share it),
> but the vt200 keyboard is based on an international standard.
> Jeff

What standard?  I have heard and challenged this claim before, and have
never gotten a reference to a real live standards-body type document.
Just because the keyboard is weird doesn't mean it's internationally kosher.

By the way, I like the LK201, except for the stupid <> key.  Note that
the LK201 keyboard doesn't generate anything even remotely resembling
ASCII;  it's up to the box at the other end of the coiled cord (VT220,
VT240, VT241, Pro-350, Rainbow, VAXstation-II, etc.) to turn what the
keyboard sends into ASCII (or whatever).  My Rainbow has a key labelled
ESC (F11) that actually sends 033 (or causes the software to see an 033,
which amounts to the same thing).  If the box your LK201 talks to is
programmable (i.e., anything except VT2xx) you can cause the keyboard
to look like anything.  Dvorak, anyone?

But back to my original question:  *what* international standard?