Viktor Pilpenok wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 VP> Hello Roy!

 VP> 14 Feb 04 20:06, you wrote to Leonard Erickson:

 RT> This is true,  though what I used did have arrow keys.  One nice
 RT> thing about the "standard pc" keyboard layout is that there's no
 RT> variation there (though my brother's keyboard has a few "extras" in
 RT> that area) and I can do stuff without having to look too much.

 VP> Around here, there are alot of keyboards which have the slash/pipe
 VP> key moved from between the backspace and plus key to the right of
 VP> the rshift, which can get quite pissing when you blind-type a path
 VP> under any dos-like os.

There are at least three variations on that one around here.  The keyboard
I'm typing it on has a single-height  key and they put it
right above that.  The one attached to the primary linux box puts it below
the  key,  to the right of the right-hand shift key,  the IBM
keyboard that's attached to the test fixture is like this one,  and the
"Reveal" keyboard that's on the firewall/router has it up next to
the backspace key like you mention.

 VP> There is also a variation on the position of the ACPI keys,

The which?

 VP> some manufacturers put them in line whit the F-keys and move the
 VP> PS/SL/Pause trio down near the ins/home/p.up - which together form
 VP> a 3x3 array above the cursor keys. One consequence of this is that
 VP> the Ins key gets to the position where the old del key was, which
 VP> inturn leads to interesting results for people that like to use the
 VP> old-style Ctrl-Ins/Shift-Ins/Shift-Del for copy/paste/cut. ;) 

Heh.

---