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Date:      Sun, 14 Jul 1996 19:33:28 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Cc:        jfieber@indiana.edu, grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey)
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD keyboard
Message-ID:  <199607141733.TAA11979@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199607141148.NAA21827@allegro.lemis.de> from Greg Lehey at "Jul 14, 96 01:48:40 pm"

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As Greg Lehey wrote:

> Why did they change the keyboard layout to put the F keys up the top
> again?  Some marketeer decided it would sell better that way.  You can
> bet he can't type.

Possible.  However, i believe the F keys were moved to the top by the
time the keyboard grew from 84 to 101/102 keys.  It would be a fair
amount wider these days if they were still on the left.

> BTW, what does this Microslop key do?

They generate Meta_L and Meta_R.

 --

In XFree86. :-)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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