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This story also explains something else for me: I use the same keyboard, monitor and mouse with my Mac and my Windows machine. To make it easy to switch betwee
by troymc 15y ago
This story also explains something else for me:
I use the same keyboard, monitor and mouse with my Mac and my Windows machine. To make it easy to switch between them, I have a KVM switch. My keyboard is a Windows keyboard. Until now, I had wondered why my KVM switch maps the Windows key to the Mac's command key. Now I know: The Mac commmand key used to be an apple... the Microsoft logo maps to the Apple logo (historically).
- johnthedebs 15y agoSmall technicality: It isn't your KVM that's doing the mapping, but the OS that's interpreting the key this way. I believe the keyboards send the same signal.
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- tsuraan 15y agoNow that's weird; I wasn't even aware that the apple symbol had been removed from the apple key. Both my apple keyboards (one on a IIci, and one on my ~2004 Powerbook G4) have apples on them. I wonder why they removed it. EDIT: according to wikipedia, they removed the apple to make space for the word "command" (or "cmd" in Europe). Makes sense, I guess.
- ugh 15y agoThe original Mac had no Apple logo on its command key. They added the Apple logo some years later and it stayed there until 2007 when it was removed.
- flomo 15y agoThey added the Apple logo when they introduced ADB - both Macintosh and the //gs used the same keyboards.
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