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- From: paulr@fulcrum.oz.au (Paul Rosham)
- Subject: Re: UNIX-layout Type 5 keyboards (was Re: SunOS 4.1 upgrade to Sol. 2.1...)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.013407.2676@fulcrum.oz.au>
- Organization: The Fulcrum Consulting Group
- References: <16084@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 01:34:07 GMT
- Lines: 21
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- guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
-
- >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.)
-
- Unless you order the UNIX version for a customer and get a PC-style kbd
- delivered [possibly blameable on distribution, but you never know.]
-
- It still sucks, tho' >;-}
-
- -PaulR.
-