[39] in 1993-clients
DECstation 5000/25
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (pshuang@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Mon Mar 16 12:57:10 1992
From: pshuang@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 92 12:56:49 -0500
To: 1993-clients@Athena.MIT.EDU
The DECstation keyboards are very annoying for me. They are a
considerable switch in feel from the old DEC keyboards. Does DEC supply
a keyboard that feels and looks like an IBM Extended/101 keyboard (I
find when I plan to do a lot of typing, e.g. write a paper, I will log
in at an IBM RT for the keyboard), which is somewhat close to being a
standard? That way at least fingers don't have to keep switching gears
between different machines. Having an Alt key and a Compose key next to
each other is very confusing.
Unfortunate that the display size has shrunk compared to the VAXstation
screens sizes, this may annoy users who have geometries set, and the
desktop is noticeably smaller. I liked the *LARGER* than previous
desktops that are available with the RS/6000's currently deployed.
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