der Mouse <mouse_at_rodents.montreal.qc.ca> wrote:
> Where did you find this definition?
It will be the IFCTF definition when I get around to posting it. Though it will
say "ASCII or ASCII extension", and I'm sorry that I didn't make the last bit
clear in my message you are replying to.
> (I suppose typewriters old enough
> to not contain computers don't have keyboards?)
Typewriters were a passing fad of the 19th century. Computers have been around
for billions of years and will be around for billions of years to come. Every
living cell has a microprocessor in its nucleus (too bad biologists are still
refusing to use standard computer science terminology and therefore keep
reinventing the wheels of computer science), and the pagan gods and goddesses
who created us (wrote and compiled our DNA program) surely used computers. The
spacecraft they used to get to this planet from theirs were also computer-
controlled. Oh, and ASCII terminals are also as old as humanity: every ancient
pagan temple had a terminal for the priests to communicate with the gods. And
yes, they used a 7-bit code, 7 being the favourite number of Enki, the god who
played the greatest role in the creation of human civilisation. The 7-bit codes
didn't have the graphic renditions we use today, but then the code is primary,
graphic rendition (if you use one at all) is secondary.
Oh, and I often tend to decode ASCII as Anunnaki Standard Code for Information
Interchange, Anunnaki being the ancient Shumerian term for "Those Who from
Heaven to Earth Came" (i.e., ET visitors translated into modern English), which
was also the proper name by which the pagan gods and goddesses called
themselves. (Different human worshippers knew them by different names, but the
only true name is the one by which the gods called *themselves*.)
> For that matter, based on your comment header, your Compose key is as
> evil as the alt keys you're railing against, since the "what ASCII code
> is it supposed to generate?" question is just as forceful - and indeed,
> since you're producing non-ASCII codes, I guess your LK201 will no
> longer be a keyboard when you're done.
See above, I should have said "ASCII or ASCII extension", the latter being
things like Soviet KOI-8 and ISO 8859 series. But when it comes to Alt, you
gotta admit that it originates in the PC (PeeCee, pee sea, etc) world. DEC's
adding of it to LK401 was a consession to the PeeCee world. And I won't make
any concessions to the enemy.
> (I was afraid a bunch of other keycodes would change or
> some such).
That's unlikely because keeping everything else the same simplifies the firmware
both in the LK401 and in the products designed to use it. (The former needs to
work in LK201 compatibility mode, and most of the latter probably accept an
LK201 unofficially.)
> The keypad . key seems to be dead, though I suspect that may be broken
> keyboard hardware rather than anything LK401-specific.
It's dead in both LK201 and LK401 modes, right?
MS
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