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Jeff Keller wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On 11/27/07, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:elw@stderr.org">elw@stderr.org</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:elw@stderr.org"><elw@stderr.org></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I imagine that if the XO is in violation, a lot of other products
(hardware and software) are also in violation. Shift keys are modifiers,
yes - they help you make Big Letters. The case sounds fairly ridiculous;
folks've had some form of AltGr, or Meta, or Mode key since... vt100
terminals? A blasted long time.
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I haven't looked followed the links (the whole thing sounds frivolous
to me, and not about technology), but for prior art one could do worse
than the Space Cadet keyboard, used with Lisp Machines at least as
early as 1980:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-cadet_keyboard">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-cadet_keyboard</a>
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Here's some prior art from 1978:<br>
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Double Bucky (Sung to the tune of "Rubber Duckie") <br>
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Double bucky, you're the one!
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You make my keyboard lots of fun <br>
Double bucky, an additional bit or two:
(Vo-vo-de-o!)
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Control and Meta side by side,
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Augmented ASCII, nine bits wide! <br>
Double bucky, a half a thousand glyphs, plus a few!
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Double bucky, left and right
OR'd together, outta sight! <br>
Double bucky, <br>
I'd like a whole word of Double bucky, <br>
I'm happy I heard of Double bucky, <br>
I'd like a whole word of you! <br>
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-- (C) 1978 by Guy L. Steele, Jr.<br>
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