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From: pete@valid.UUCP (Pete Zakel)
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Subject: Re: In search of a sane keyboard standard
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Date: Mon, 12-May-86 18:36:03 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 12 18:36:03 1986
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> In article <132@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> sas1@sphinx.UUCP (Stuart Schmukler) writes:
> >In article <1314@oddjob.UUCP> mrl@oddjob.UUCP (Scott R. Anderson) writes:
> >>The vt200 has ",," and ".." keys, as on many typewriters, and
> >>puts <> on a key between Z and SHIFT; as you might expect, this
> >>is a real pain, and no one around here likes it. 
> >
> >I have even seen some one from DEC strongly defend this positioning in a
> >discussion of standard keyboards for the APL community.  In general that
> >keyboard seems to be motivated by an attempt to court the secretarial user and 
> >the europeans.
> 
> It would seem so, except that if they were trying to exactly reproduce the
> standard typewriter keyboard, they did a lousy job of key positioning,
> what with the left shift key shifted left and the return key shifted right.
> -- 
> Scott Anderson

Also, there is no reason NOT to have a shifted '.' and ',' be something
different on a terminal keyboard.  The reason for '. .' and ', ,' was that
you still wanted to be able to type those in "shift lock" mode, but since
"caps lock" on a terminal only shifts the alphabetic keys, the reason for
a '. .' and ', ,' go away.  Some people just don't know how to think!
-- 
-Pete Zakel (..!{hplabs,amd,pyramid,ihnp4}!pesnta!valid!pete)