Cricket Rantings

Alex · 11-05-2007, 07:35 PM

Sigh, I have no self control.

A history of several of the pointless keys on a modern keyboard. As with the previous about ¢, the answer is essentially "the original computer keyboards were designed by engineers before the advent of home computing so they were useful for those old uses and because of the idea of reverse compatibility it is very hard to remove something that is already there.

11-05-2007, 07:35 PM	#11
Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	Sigh, I have no self control. A history of several of the pointless keys on a modern keyboard. As with the previous about ¢, the answer is essentially "the original computer keyboards were designed by engineers before the advent of home computing so they were useful for those old uses and because of the idea of reverse compatibility it is very hard to remove something that is already there.
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