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- From: zrepachol@cc.curtin.edu.au
- Subject: Re: DEC workstation user feedback
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.035612.1@cc.curtin.edu.au>
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- Organization: Curtin University of Technology
- References: <2B27754D.9343@news.service.uci.edu> <PRZEMEK.92Dec10160438@rrdstrad.nist.gov> <Bz5MA5.6F2@news.iastate.edu>
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 18:56:12 GMT
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- In article <Bz5MA5.6F2@news.iastate.edu>, john@iastate.edu (John Hascall) writes:
- > przemek@rrdstrad.nist.gov (Przemek Klosowski) writes:
- > }Here's my two pennies: I wish DEC did away with this righteous sticking to
- > }the idea that ESC _must_ only be the beginning of an escape sequence,
- > }and added an ESC key to their keyboards. It is just silly NOT to have
- > }a hardware escape key, while providing multiple options in software to
- > }configure escape on either F11 or ~ or ...
- >
-
- Yeah, nearly 10 years since the VT2xx crap, and its only a marginal frob better.
- BTW, ring your friendly salek and try to get a set of right-minded keycaps to
- put on the re-configured keyboard. It makes for some Xmas fun and frivolity. God
- how I would like to stick it on the end of a mega-buck order and add 'partial
- shipment not aceptable'.
-
- ~Paul
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