Hi Leonard! :-)

 LE> Why? they generate prefectly valid keycodes, and whatever OS you are
 LE> running, you can find a way to tell the keyboard drivers to recognize
 LE> them for whatever.
Apart from the fact that Windows keyboards have smaller space bars and I
always end up hitting the Windows key instead of the right alt key. This is
a German keyboard, so you need right alt for some pretty important keys:

    [ ] { } \ {at} | ~

Except for the {at}, all of those are quite important in programming
languages. I find that somehwat annoying. ;)

I use an old heavy IBM keyboard connected to the PS/2 port via an adaptor.
No Windows keys.

Ciao
Pascal

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