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From: flaps@utcs.uucp (Alan J Rosenthal)
Newsgroups: net.info-terms,net.internat
Subject: Re: In search of a sane keyboard standard
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Date: Mon, 12-May-86 11:55:58 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 12 11:55:58 1986
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Reply-To: flaps@utcs.UUCP (Alan J Rosenthal)
Organization: University of Toronto
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Many people seem to be concluding that we can't come up with a standard
at all because there are so many different interests involved.  I think that
we can probably come up with some standards, even if not an entire keyboard,
because of the simple fact that too many keyboard designers get too creative
and change a usual placement of a key in a way which gains negligible advantage
but disturbs many people accustomed to its old location.
Some example standards MIGHT be:

	- no key between the left shift and Z keys
	- control and caps-lock in the standard order
	- two keys between the L and RETURN keys
	- BREAK key away from main board
	- arrows in meaningful physical order

and so on.  I think it would be productive for people to propose these sorts of
individual, smaller things, rather than everything at once.

Alan J Rosenthal
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