Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site cbosgd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!cbosgd!mark From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,net.std,net.cog-eng Subject: Re: DVORAK keyboard standards Message-ID: <947@cbosgd.UUCP> Date: Thu, 9-Feb-84 20:02:26 EST Article-I.D.: cbosgd.947 Posted: Thu Feb 9 20:02:26 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Feb-84 09:03:32 EST References: <835@ihuxm.UUCP> <986@proper.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus Lines: 15 Did you know there is an ANSI standard keyboard layout for ASCII terminals? (I have the reference at work, it's called "for Office Machine Keyboards" or some such thing, and is right behind X3.64 in our library's set of standards.) Not only does it exist, but it's got to be the most brain-damaged layout I've ever seen! I've never seen an implementation, and I can certainly understand why. Among its other misfeatures, the keyboard has an extra key between Z and the left hand shift key. What, you say, did the IBM PC use that bizarre layout because of the ANSI standard? Well, not quite. The IBM PC has \ and | on that key. The standard expects < and > to be there. It also has [ and ] on the same key, and { and } on the same key, which might be reasonable, except that unshifted is ] and shifted is [ (ditto for braces). I'll try to remember to post the whole layout tomorrow.