ee163ht@sdccsu3.UUCP (06/15/83)
We have a computer room here on campus with about 40 h19s. On several of them, (i've never bothered doing a survey, so i don't know if it is *all*), typing fg results in a ^[S going along for the ride. This is one of the function key codes (f1). Has anyone else ever experienced this problem? Alyn Fratkin UC San Diego
fostel@ncsu.UUCP (06/28/83)
Don't be so hard on the "Engineers". When's the last time YOU produced a program you were really proud of when your boss wanted it done about a week ago, using half the resources you need, and conforming to specs written by some Pig Headed Pseudo Programmer in a marketing position, using a language you thought inappropriate? The articl about the automobile tickled me because I had considered submitting an article making the exact oppisite point! I consider cars of the late 50's thru mid-late 60's to have been the finest driving machines produced. There has been a decline since that time. And I don't think it is the fault of the engineers. My old (RIP) 67 chevy was much better designed from Human engineering point of view (as well as ...) I don't like control stalks with a dozen differnt twists slide controls and I don't like digital speedometers, and I don't like idiot lights (lights for ...) and I don't like menu driver software and I dont like vertically mounted radios and and and. I do like speed controls and a variety of things that have been ADDED since the 60's. I do not buy the basic premise that as things evolve towards being more "human" they reduce the number of thing-a-ma-jigs. I think that is the thinking behind menu systems, and I find those to be very in-human (unless I am not a .... nah). ----GaryFostel----