jss (08/11/82)
IF computer programmers built programs like IBM builds computers, the first hypercritical hacker would bitch and scream at us too. For god's sake - In the time it takes to learn that ytou have to stretch your pinky a little bit, you might have lost a grand total of 5 whole minutes out of your life. Aren't users supposed to be nominally adaptable? This is a nominal adaption. Like it or lump it, but quit complaining.
jss (08/19/82)
Yes Yes Yes, But for one problem, H. Spencer's comment makes great sense. The problem: The "Standard ASCII Keyboard" does not exist. In theory there is one, but in fact there are so many differences that there might as well not be. Personally, I use everything from a textronix 4014 to an adm3a (yuch) during the course of a typical day, and I have had no trouble with the layouts whatsoever. As far as his comment that the machines should be his servant, the keyboard is an interface, and like it or not, an interface is conceptually a TWO WAY adaption.