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From: prc@maxim.ERBE.SE (Robert Claeson)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Keyboards
Message-ID: <464@maxim.ERBE.SE>
Date: 21 Jan 89 11:41:36 GMT
References: <2124@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk>
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In article <2124@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk>, nick@cs.hw.ac.uk (Nick Taylor) writes:

> 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.
> We could carry them around with us and just plug into a terminal which
> we wanted to use.

I can't almost imagine what problems this would create with terminal
definitions! If this is to become a reailty, there should really be
a standard for keyboard layouts (including the number of function keys,
their labels and their placement). I guess DEC's VT2xx/VT3xx keyboards
comes pretty close, as does IBM's Enhanced keyboards (the ones with 12
F-keys on the top row). They are both quite widespread.
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