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From: kwh@bentley.UUCP (KW Heuer)
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Subject: Re: In search of a sane keyboard standard
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Date: Fri, 9-May-86 20:06:50 EDT
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In article <824@cyb-eng.UUCP> cyb-eng!lee (Bill Lee) writes:
>Keyboards are seemingly being designed by people that haven't ever used a
>real computer, and certainly not a Unix system.

The keyboard should *not* be optimized specifically for UNIX*.  ("DEL means
kill process, and so does BREAK, so we'll put them both over here...")  This
sort of thing has led to problems in the past -- didn't DEC botch a keyboard
because they were thinking in terms of VMS**?

(I realize I'm responding to something you didn't say, but I thought the
point should be made anyway.)

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ihnp4!bentley!kwh), The Walking Lint
*UNIX is a trademark of AT&T Bell Laboratories.
**VMS is a trademark of Digital Equipment Corporation.