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From: morrison@grads.cs.ubc.ca (Rick Morrison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: NeXT Keyboard
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Date: 19 Feb 89 22:30:04 GMT
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Am I alone in thinking the lack of function keys on the NeXT keyboard
an appalling design decision, considering the Unix-literate academic
market the machine is apparently aimed at. This seems especially
surprising since that mecca of emacs, CMU, was supposedly consulted
in developing design specs. The idea of using gnu emacs without function
keys dampens my enthusiasm for an otherwise interesting alternative to
a SUN workstation. While we are on the topic, who came up with the
idea of the rubber tractors on the monitor? Seems to me they got
the old architectural motto "form follows function" backwards on this one.
I'd trade the cutesey feet for a swivel base any day.
Oh well, at least they didn't put spoilers on the cube. We can only hope they
didn't let the "aesthetics engineers" inside the box.
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