On 1/14/06, David Brodbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alex Chamberlain wrote: > > Adopted, yes. Adopted correctly, no. Microsoft's user-interface > > bozos were too stupid to realize that the "command" or "open apple" > > key on the Mac and Apple II was not the same as the "control" key but > > had a different function entirely. Since "control" already had a > > recognized function---sending commands to control a remote system in > > terminal emulation, hence the name---they should have used a different > > key. > > It took Apple a while, too. Early Mac keyboards had no control key, > forcing hacks like using the Option key instead in terminal software. >
Or they'd make ctrl-C, ctrl-Z, etc. into menu commands. I remember that. I used MacTerminal to get on BBSs with my Mac Plus back in the day. But I don't see that as nearly as big a problem as the Windows situation. There was no use for the Option key when using the machine as a dumb terminal, and since its normal Mac use was to create special characters, there was already a little bit of ergonomic precedent for its subsitution for Control.
