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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor
Date: Wed, 21 May 2025 08:51:07 -0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 21 May 2025 01:30:55 -0600, Jeff Barnett wrote:

> The keyboards that came that came with the Lisp machines had cap,
> ctrl, meta, hyper, and maybe one other such key ...

There was an online discussion of the old Lisp Machine keyboards that
included pictures. I think it’s gone now.

My recreation of what I thought was the ultimate, the “Space Cadet”
keyboard, as an exercise in CG modelling:
<https://www.deviantart.com/default-cube/art/Space-Cadet-Keyboard-650629356>

(My original version followed a reference picture where the keyboard
had become yellow with age, and the grey keys had turned brown; the
above picture shows it in something closer to the original colours
when new.)

> The mouse "knew" the types you were pointing at and the menus adjust
> to sensible options for the type of data of the object represented
> by what the mouse was on.

We don’t describe it in such magical terms nowadays; we just call them
“contextual menus”.