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From: dorner@uxg.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Idea for new MacIntosh Editor
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Date: 17 Jun 88 13:49:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxg.cso.uiuc.edu!dorner    Jun 17 08:49:00 1988


>I saw some prototype layout for some ISO or some-such standard
>one or two years ago. It looked much like the IBM AT-3 or maybe
>DEC VT220 keyboard.

The DEC VT220 keyboard (the ``LK201'') uses the ISO standard layout.
The ORIGINAL IBM PC keyboard used a similar layout.  Both had an
extra key between ``z'' and left shift, and between quotes and return.
Personally, I hate them both.

More and more companies are using a layout like the Apple Saratoga (IBM's
new keyboard, for example).  I like that just fine.  So, to add another
slogan to our vocabulary:

ISO -- just say NO!

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