From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 10 09:52:34 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA15084 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 10 Jul 1995 09:52:34 -0700 Received: from mail.rwth-aachen.de (mail.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.144.9]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA15076 for ; Mon, 10 Jul 1995 09:52:27 -0700 Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de by mail.rwth-aachen.de (PMDF V4.3-10 #7297) id <01HSPRMY0NJK0038NA@mail.rwth-aachen.de>; Mon, 10 Jul 1995 18:51:33 +0100 Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.8/8.6.9) id TAA03378; Mon, 10 Jul 1995 19:04:22 +0200 Date: Mon, 10 Jul 1995 19:04:22 +0200 (MET DST) From: Christoph Kukulies Subject: Re: some pcvt quirks In-reply-to: <199507101440.JAA02078@bonkers.taronga.com> from "Peter da Silva" at Jul 10, 95 09:40:21 am To: peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com (user alias) Reply-to: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de Reply-to: Christoph Kukulies Message-id: <199507101704.TAA03378@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-type: text Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-length: 1129 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > In article <199507100650.XAA04636@corbin.root.com>, > David Greenman 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-