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  2. From: goudreau@robin.rtp.dg.com (Bob Goudreau)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
  4. Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD?
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov16.185048.4615@dg-rtp.dg.com>
  6. Date: 16 Nov 92 18:50:48 GMT
  7. References: <BxGu2H.A62@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> <1992Nov10.212013.6590@avernus.com> <BxMFry.20I@eonsw.demon.co.uk>
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  12. In article <BxMFry.20I@eonsw.demon.co.uk> ian@eonsw.demon.co.uk (Ian Leonard) writes:
  13. >
  14. > Why does it [IBM PC] have an ESC key?
  15.  
  16. Probably because IBM realized that a keyboard that wasn't able to
  17. generate all of the characters in the ASCII standard would not sell
  18. as well as one that was.
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