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Date:      Mon, 10 Jul 1995 19:04:22 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
To:        peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com (user alias)
Subject:   Re: some pcvt quirks
Message-ID:  <199507101704.TAA03378@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
In-Reply-To: <199507101440.JAA02078@bonkers.taronga.com> from "Peter da Silva" at Jul 10, 95 09:40:21 am

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> 
> In article <199507100650.XAA04636@corbin.root.com>,
> David Greenman  <davidg@root.com> wrote:
> >>Take this as a counter personal arguement, DEC later relized there
> >>mistake and corrected this.  All vt200 series and latter terminals
> >>can be setup to generate either ^H or ^? for that key.  DEC corrected
> >>there mistake, perhaps you should too.
> 
> >   Yes, but to this day RT-11, RSTS/E, RSX, and VMS still only take DEL. IMO,
> >if you're going to emulate a DEC terminal, you should do DEC-ish things.
> 
> DEC terminals don't have both a DEL key and a BACKSPACE key.

Just FYI: My VT101 has a backspace *and* a delete key in the upper right
region of the main keyboard. :-)


> 
> A related question, does anyone make Sun-style keyboards (the good ones, like
> on the SS2 with the DEL and BACKSPACE keys adjacent) for the PC?
> 
> Also, anyone know where I can get a PC-compatible sun-style optical mouse? I
> have one for my Amiga, but I haven't found one for the PC.
> 

--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
FreeBSD blues.physik.rwth-aachen.de 2.0-BUILT-19950701 FreeBSD 2.0-BUILT-



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