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- From: des@inmos.co.uk (David Shepherd)
- Newsgroups: uk.misc
- Subject: Re: Symbol for pound sterling
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.093230.12348@wraxall.inmos.co.uk>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 09:32:29 GMT
- References: <1993Jan20.095649.7771@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
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- Philip Hazel (ph10@cus.cam.ac.uk) wrote:
- : And some IBM EBCDIC terminals had sterling where the dollar sign should be and
- : dollar where the cent sign should be. You wouldn't BELIEVE how much trouble we
- : had to go to in order to get U.S. keyboards out of Big Blue...
-
- don't worry - Sun are up to the same tricks now that they're trying to
- be an office machine supplier rather than workstation supplier - our
- last machine in this group came with a UK Type 5 keyboard - everything,
- including the delte key, control key, quotes, etc etc is in subtley
- different places from the TYpe 4 keyboard that all our other sparc
- stations use. Apparently you can specify something more similar to
- the old type 4 layout but we never knew that till it arrived.
-
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