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From: g-golub@rocky.cs.wisc.edu.CS.WISC.EDU (Joshua Golub)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Third party keyboards for the Mac
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Date: 1 Jul 88 17:14:58 GMT
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In article <449@esquire.UUCP> sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten) writes:
>In article <5223@super.upenn.edu> hodas@eniac.seas.upenn.edu.UUCP (Josh Hodas) writes:
>>Not that I really want to start a massive netwar on the human factors of key-
>>boards, but why is 'next to the "A"' the right place for the control key?  I 
>>suspect it is only because that is the way it was on the keyboard you learned
>>on.
>
>This is true, although the real reason is that I have 2 other keyboards at
>work, and that's where the control key is on both of them.  Like I said, I
>have enough trouble going between emacs and vi occasionally; let's not
>compound the problem.

And a small voice from the back said. . .
Actually, I find the Apple extended keyboard layout extremely friendly, and
very, VERY compatible with the other keyboard I use regularly, which is
found on one of that nameless blue corps model-80s.  The key layout is
EXACTLY the same, with the exception that the Apple keyboard has an OPTION
key. But then, there's a reason the two are so similar, isn't there.
    Now if only the functiounality of the blue keyboard could be brought into
line with this one. . .
 
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