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Subject: Re: keyboards (was Re: Don't Bash Suns)
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Date: 4 Oct 88 13:35:26 GMT
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In article <1957@kalliope.rice.edu> scorpion@titan.rice.edu (Vernon Lee) writes:
>Other keyboards with misplaced CAPS-LOCK and CTRL keys include the Mac II
>and the IBM PC RT.  What's the problem - is CTRL too dangerous to be put in 
>an easy-to-reach place?  This looks like a trend to me; I want to know what
>their reasoning was.

well, on most typewriters, that *is* the location of the
caps-lock.  apparently, "they" thought that it would better
for touch typests if the keyboard closely mimicked that of
the typewriter.

funny thing though, when i was installing pee-cee's as word
processors in offices, and instructing the secretaries on
their use, i never got a complaint about the ctrl-key/caps
debate.  it usually took them about a day and a half to
adjust and then they just flipped back and forth freely
between their typewriters and the pc's.

>Vernon Lee                    ARPA/CSNET:  scorpion@rice.edu

bill rankin
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