ji@walkuere.altair.fr (John Ioannidis) (06/28/89)
I was going through /usr/include/sundev/kbd.h on my brand-new 3/80 running 4.0.3, and guess what I found: In the block of keyboard type definitions, between KB_SUN4 and KB_ASCII there is the following line: #define KB_VT220 0x05 /* VT220 Style keyboard */ Yes! From the people who brought you the Type-4 keyboard, with the delete key out of harm's way, the backquote key where a larger return key should be (so that you exercise your right pinky), and the completely useless (in a Un*x environment) backslash/pipe key conveniently located in the top row of the function keys... ... coming soon ... ... at a toy store near you ... THE VT-220 STYLE KEYBOARD! (trumpets, confetti, dancers, fireworks) Does everybody agree with me that Sun should institute mandatory drug testing among its employees? And to add to the Type-4 keyboard discussion, here's a quote from the SunOS 4.0.3 Release Manual. Chapter 8 is a one-page chapter entitled `Type-4 Keyboard'. In it we find out that... ``Current advantages of the Type-4 keyboard over the Type-3 keyboard are: * The Type-4 keyboard has three more software-programmable function keys that the type-3 keyboard. * The Type-4 keyboard passes standards for electronic emissions in several countries.'' That's all, folks. This is why they did it. Not even to be Big-Blue or Macintrash compatible. Not even to annoy us. NO. Three more function keys. Now, ain't that great! Everybody I know was complaining about the small number of function keys in the sun keyboard. Now they should be happy. And the numeric keypad doesn't even work as a numeric keypad. But since that's documented, I guess it's OK. Maybe if all of us stopped ordering suns for a month or so... /ji #include <appropriate disclaimers> In-Real-Life: John Ioannidis E-Mail-To: <ji@cs.columbia.edu> (preferred), or <ji@walkuere.altair.fr> P-Mail-To: GIP-Altair, Dom de Voluceau BP105, Rocquencourt 78153 Le Chesnay, FR V-Mail-To: +33 1 39635227, +33 1 39635417 ... It's all greek to me