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Date:      Mon, 15 Jul 1996 13:17:38 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey)
To:        kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly)
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Chat)
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD keyboard
Message-ID:  <199607151117.NAA04587@allegro.lemis.de>
In-Reply-To: <199607141608.QAA17220@gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov> from "Sean Kelly" at Jul 14, 96 10:08:41 am

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Sean Kelly writes:
>
>>>>>> "Greg" == Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.de> writes:
>
>     Greg> Why did they change the keyboard layout to put the F keys up
>     Greg> the top again?  Some marketeer decided it would sell better
>     Greg> that way.  You can bet he can't type.
>
> He might've been able to type anyway.  Assertion: newer is better.  :-)

If he'd been able to type, he could easily have found something newer
which wasn't objectively worse.

> What was Nuprin's marketing scheme for their analgesic tablets that
> Terry Lambert cleverly quoted at one time: little, yellow, different.

... and they make you sick?

I can even see the marketeer's point of view in wanting to bring out
something new and different.  But even marketeers appreciate that
that's not enough: it has to be at least as good as it was before.

Greg



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