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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