On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 02:38:29PM +0100, Ruth Bygrave 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. I am tempted to add, what d'you expect of a company for whom Start stops the computer and Alt-F4 stops the app with the focus (Apple's approach of Cmd-Q stops the app with the focus so roolz by comparison!).
That'd be wrong, especially given that Commodore with the Amiga had a very much like the current PC layout, except that \ and | were on the top right rather than bottom left. The Atari ST was similar but the \ and | were in the similar to pc places. The BBC micro also had " on shift+2 but other bits of the layout are crackful. Given that many of these date from the early 80's and well before Microsoft had a monopoly blaming them would be wrong ;)
Thanks Adam