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		cerberusss on July 15, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Great Apple Keyboard Cover-Up > Traditional UNIX keyboards had the control key in the position of where the caps lock key is now Couterpoint: when I was working at Lucent around 1999, they gave me a Sun workstation with a keyboard that had Esc instead of Caps Lock. There were others that had a Control key there, though. Edit: I'm searching online and can't find a Sun keyboard with that layout. Now I'm wondering if I misremembered...

copperx on July 16, 2018 [–]

That's interesting. All the Sun keyboards that I have seen have the control key in the place of the caps lock key. I do know that some had the Esc key closer to the home row (back-tick position, I believe).

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