NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3/NN_1993_3.iso/spool/uk/misc/3084

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From: [e-mail]
Newsgroups: uk.misc
Subject: Re: Symbol for pound sterling
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: 22 Jan 93 14:59:51 GMT
References: <[e-mail]> <[e-mail]>
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (David Shepherd) writes:
> Philip Hazel ([e-mail]) 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.

But from what I've read on the net, the Type 5 keyboard is like a PC keyboard
(ie: it has all the keys you'll need and in sensible places) which is miles
better than Sun's keys in places you'd never expect keyboards. The only
keyboards with worse layout than Sun, is HP. DEC keyboards (which I am typing
this on) are at least similar to PC keyboards, which lets face it, are going
to be the world standard one day, and not a day too soon, as long as it isn't
a NorthGate keyboard layout.
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