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From: "Boyd Roberts" <boyd@planete.net>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] azerty [french] keyboard support
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Date: Sun,  4 Feb 2001 02:19:44 +0100
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> The most satisfactory way might be to provide a mapping operation in
> devcons.c,

i'd thought of writing 'azerty' or 'qwerty' to consctl to get it
to swap mappings.  will have a bit of a ponder before hacking away.

may need some machine specific hook to get 'alt graphic' to work.

at least when i was at digital, in paris, we had nothing but qwerty
keyboards.  in the real world it's 99% azerty.  want to see a nasty
keyboard?  check out the HP 9000 series console keyboards.  stuff
like | and others aren't even marked on the keytops!

a truly superb piece of engineering and that's before the damn
thing boots.  the big ones can take 20 minutes.

even a vax 780 with an la-120 booted faster than that.