Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 13:19:03 +0200 (MET DST) From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Chat) Subject: Re: FreeBSD keyboard Message-ID: <199607151119.NAA04597@allegro.lemis.de> In-Reply-To: <199607141733.TAA11979@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Jul 14, 96 07:33:28 pm
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J Wunsch writes: > > 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. Sure, and possibly this was one of the reasons. There are other ways of reducing the width, though. >> BTW, what does this Microslop key do? > > They generate Meta_L and Meta_R. > > In XFree86. :-) And what do they do in 95%? Greg
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