#: 4484 S15/Hot Topics
    18-Jun-90  23:28:32
Sb: #4415-#MM/1 s/w
Fm: Jim Peasley 72726,1153
To: Jim Williams 72157,3524 (X)

~ Jim;

  The Amiga designers did a good job on the hardware, I'll agree!  There's lots
of things about it that I really like - just hope the MM/1 equals or exceeds
it.

  The PS/2 keyboard (AT 101 style) does NOT have a HELP key.  I've been using
one for about 18 months now, and it's really well thought out and easy to
learn.  The one that I got (don't remember the mfg.) has the large ENTER key,
left/right CTRL and ALT keys, ESC in the upper left, 12 PF keys in groups of 4
across the top, a keypad off to the right, etc.

  The I*M world has adopted the F1 key as the standard for HELP in the past few
years... all the systems that I use at work, with the exception of areas of
PROFS use F1, as do almost all the DOS based programs that I've come in contact
with.

  I'm not saying that we need to stick to this standard, only that we should
adopt SOME standards for all the MM/1 software that is bound to appear.  If, at
the same time, we could remain compatible with the user interface, it would
probably make the computer easier to learn for DOS types.

  ...Jim

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