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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!data.ramona.vix.com!vixie!nnrp.vix.com!vixie From: vixie@vix.com (Paul A Vixie) Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: On the Naming of UNIX Things Date: 11 Nov 1996 05:31:38 GMT Organization: Vixie Enterprises Lines: 17 Message-ID: <VIXIE.96Nov10213138@wisdom.vix.com> References: <55vhpf$q3o@mail1.wg.waii.com> <560146$t9c@mail1.wg.waii.com> <E0L92J.4tM@world.std.com> <kbibb.847601696@shellx> <56678u$41p@windigo.d-and-d.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: wisdom.home.vix.com In-reply-to: dnichols@d-and-d.com's message of 10 Nov 1996 22:41:18 -0500 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.misc:26259 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1459 alt.folklore.computers:124377 > I *hope* that you mean a Teletype. Every Decwriter keyboard that I >have ever used had an excellent keyboard. However, on an ASR-33 Teletype, >you could balance a broom, handle down, on a key without applying enough >force to cause it to send the character. :-) Wasn't it GREAT? It has a mechanical interlock so that no two keys could be pressed at the same time. This interlock was gradiated, such that as pressure was released on the "down" key, the "up but would like to be down" key would slide downward. After a few years of practice with this feedback loop I learned to type at exactly 10CPS and could continue so for minutes at a time. THOSE were the days. (My friends tell me that this must be why I love the VT100's keyboard so much.) Carpal what? -- Paul Vixie La Honda, CA "Illegitimibus non carborundum." <paul@vix.com> pacbell!vixie!paul