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From: Derek Peschel <dpeschel@eskimo.com>
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Subject: [9fans] terminal types and photos?
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 10:43:23 +0000
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 From keyboard(6) and "The Various Ports" I came up with this list of term=
inals
that Plan 9 has supported:

Carerra
Gnot
PC
Alpha PC
Viaduct
NeXT
SLC (is that a Sun?)
SparcStation 2
Magnum

Is that all?  Does anyone have photos of the custom ones?  If you combine=
d
all the features that Plan 9 programs expect from the keyboard, what woul=
d
the result look like and what would it send to the computer?

Personally, I think a keyboard should simply send up/down messages and le=
t
the computer do the decoding.  It should also have enough modifier keys
to allow at least 256 characters to be sent.  When it's appropriate, prog=
rams
should accept key sequences rather than ASCII characters since Control-Sh=
ift-A
may be useful.  I'm not advocating Emacs or anything like it (it's based =
on
constant hacking rather than planning) but I don't want to give up keyboa=
rd-
controlled programs, or the right to use any sequences I can type.  I'm a=
lso
not saying every command or character should be typable in one stroke.

I know many 9fans prefer mice.  I would need a mouse pointer I can see,
and a set of mouse gestures that allows me to work with structured data,
before I could change.  I do think mice win when you are doing work that =
may
involve any part of the screen.

-- Derek