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that keyboard, along with the space cadet one, is an aberration. It is too complex for novices, with too many keys. And not optimal to the initiated, as key co
by gcb0 12y ago
that keyboard, along with the space cadet one, is an aberration.
It is too complex for novices, with too many keys. And not optimal to the initiated, as key combinations are much more efficient.
anyone with the slightest ergonomic knowledge cringe just by glancing at those things.
- babo 12y agoAn important point of the article: lisp machines were design for the elite professionals.
- qbrass 12y agoBoth that keyboard and the space cadet have fewer keys than an IBM PC keyboard.
- gcb0 12y ago1. thats a straw man argument. the keypad, etc do not count much. 2. i never said the ibm pc keyboard was any god either :)
- hga 12y agoI used this keyboard, as well as the ones for MIT-AI's graphics terminals from which it was inspired, and a 2nd generation of those (long story), at the same time I was using "standard" keyboards including the IBM PC's, and if you have the ability to ignore keys you don't need, you can focus on the home keys and Control and Meta (and ideally use the key left of A as rubout/backspace; it not being Caps Lock is not really a problem for coders). The big issue is that the IBM layout is Ctrl-Alt, whereas the Lisp Machine was [too many other "bucky bits"]-Meta-Ctrl. Since I learned EMACS with the latter layout, for many years I just remapped those keys on other systems.