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- From: leo@ai.mit.edu (Leonardo C. Topa)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Subject: Re: UNIX-layout Type 5 keyboards (was Re: SunOS 4.1 upgrade to Sol. 2.1...)
- Followup-To: comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Date: 24 Dec 92 10:53:22
- Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
- Lines: 36
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- In-reply-to: guy@Auspex.COM's message of 24 Dec 92 03:34:57 GMT
-
- In article <16084@auspex-gw.auspex.com> guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
-
- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
- Date: 24 Dec 92 03:34:57 GMT
-
- In article <1992Dec23.230756.10589@fulcrum.oz.au> paulr@fulcrum.oz.au
- (Paul Rosham) writes:
-
- ...
-
- >[A pox on the PC-style keyboard. Stop shipping it, please, Sun.]
-
- That may, or may not, be a wise thing for Sun to do; there may well be
- many customers who *prefer* it.
-
- What would be a nice thing to do would be to make more people aware that
- they don't *have* to get that keyboard, but can get the UNIX-layout Type
- 5 instead. (Whether it's a "wise" thing to do or not, I dunno; there
- are probably many in Sun who consider it a financial burden to carry
- that extra keyboard layout.)
-
- is this why we have received several IPX's with the type-5 kbd which are
- different from the type-5 kbd's we received with some sparc10's? On
- the IPX's the ctrl key is to the left of the 'a' key, whereas on the
- sparc10's the key to the left of 'a' is caps lock. Is the former
- layout the unix type and the latter the pc style? I still don't know
- for sure which one is which.....
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- Leonardo C. Topa
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