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On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 12:01:14AM -0800, Derek Peschel wrote:
> Teletype keyboards generally have the Control key near the A (I know the
> model 33 does), and they were the first devices to use ASCII, roughly
> in the early '60s.  I don't know who moved the Control key down to the
> bottom.

Control on the way lower left (where it hurts to reach for it) is a
Windows (3.1) manifestation, to the best of my knowledge. Which is
dumb, because even in Windows, you want control more than you want
caps.

I guess it's *really* an MS Word manifestation.

::sigh::

(Recall, as I pointed out, that there ARE Apple keyboards with
control where it belongs. All the Apple II keyboards, for instance.)

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gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net

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