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Hi,

Kevin Oberman wrote:
> 
> I still refuse to acknowledge Microsoft's mangling of the previously
> standard location of the control key. I always remap it to where it
> really belongs.
> 
Microsoft did a lot of stupid things, but wasn't this move done by IBM?

WordStar lost also because it was not using the extra memory a PC 
offered. It just stayed an 8 bit application using 64 KB of RAM.

Erich