From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jul 14 10:51:49 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA15654 for chat-outgoing; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 10:51:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA15567 for ; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 10:51:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id TAA20539; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 19:50:44 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id TAA25116; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 19:50:43 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id TAA11979; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 19:33:28 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199607141733.TAA11979@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: FreeBSD keyboard To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 19:33:28 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: jfieber@indiana.edu, grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199607141148.NAA21827@allegro.lemis.de> from Greg Lehey at "Jul 14, 96 01:48:40 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. > BTW, what does this Microslop key do? They generate Meta_L and Meta_R. -- In XFree86. :-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)