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From: bzs@Encore.COM (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Keyboards
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Date: 19 Jan 89 04:12:16 GMT
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From: nick@cs.hw.ac.uk (Nick Taylor)
>What we really need (as usual!) is a standard. If the interface between
>a detachable keyboard and a terminal was standardised we could all have
>our own customised keyboards to suit our particular preferences.

At least two of the X-terminal vendors I've spoken to are using a PS/2
interface for their keyboards and one (I forgot to ask the other) has
expressed a willingness to sell terminals without keyboards so you can
go out and buy your own.

Then again, it's not that easy to find some of these keyboard
mentioned with PS/2 interfaces, but it does seem like a good start.

Maybe there's a business opportunity there for someone just waiting to
be jumped on? The X server is configurable for just about any keyboard
with just some table changing and applications are supposed to go thru
standard subroutines to get key mappings.

	-Barry Shein, ||Encore||