19 Jun
2007
19 Jun
'07
4:07 p.m.
On 6/19/07, Ruth Bygrave rbygrave@ntlworld.com wrote:
Therefore the idea that Adrian and I both had about the 'standard UK keyboard layout' was based on the massive and unfair market dominance of a single company which decided to define various things by imperial fiat.
My original IBM PC with UK keyboard came in two flavours - tall Carriage Return key or short but wide Carriage Return key. This affected the locations of the '' and '#' keys. I suspect this was IBM's design which Microsoft supported in the early versions of DOS. Apple, of course, avoided being 'IBM Compatible' at almost every turn in those early days.
So, what happens if you plug a non-Apple USB keyboard into a Mac running MacOS? Does it get all the keys right?
Tim.