On 4/30/2010 2:22 PM, Joseph McAllister wrote:
On Apr 30, 2010, at 10:06 , Larry Colen wrote:
My first attempt to use a mac was back in '84 or '85. At that time, on
any given day I might use four or five different keyboards: VT100,
Televideo, TRS80, TRS80-model 100, etc. and Likewise several different
operating systems: TRS80, CP/M, whatever was on the PDP-8, MSDOS.
Every single keyboard had the backspace key in a different place.
However, on every single computer, if I needed to backspace Ctrl-H
worked. Then I tried to use a Mac.
I suspect that this is because everything you have mentioned was based
on 1950-1970s technology. And the mindset that was and is somehow still
prevalent in the world of computers that if it worked for grandpa why
change it.
You could say the same thing about the qwerty keyboard.
For that matter, I'd love for very nasty things to happen to whoever
gratuitously moved the control key on the PC keyboard.
Intuitive is what you already know.
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