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From: dbw@ariel.UUCP (DAVE B. WOOD)
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Subject: Re: In search of a sane keyboard standard
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All this has me curious: what do other non-Unix systems do
with async terminals, and what might this mean for the
keyboards?

The IBM 3270 terminals have a rather elegant architecture
wherein the keyboard layout is what the cluster controller
(read "computer") agrees to use, and the physical scan code
is what is actually sent to the cluster when a key is
pressed or released.  (How would you like to have a switch
to denote your keycap set, and have terminfo stuff actually
download your keyboard layout?)

Don't get me wrong- for Unix I'll take Mark's keyboard every
time.

Dave Wood