Ian, Ian Betteridge wrote: > I approve of this wild topic drift :)
Yes, me too! I was a grewat lover of OpenVMS (to give it its proper name) and all things VAX and Alpha. I still have an Alpha workstation running OpenVMS running under my desk! > On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Sean Miller <s...@seanmiller.net > <mailto:s...@seanmiller.net>> wrote: > What did they call PF1? > > Was it "the gold key" or something? Yes, it was the gold key. I think on some keyboards it was actually coloured gold. It acted as a kind of meta or shift key. > It was the basis of pretty much every editing command we used to do in > edt/tpu... cut was PF1-4 I think etc. etc. The beauty was you could quite easily redefine which keys did what, which was a problem providing support to a user who had completely re-arranged his/her key functions! And, of course, VMS invented clustering and did it (and still does) much better than any system since (IMHO). Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold, Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security, Fax: +44 (0) 870 136 1004 University of Manchester, Mob: +44 (0) 773 330 0039 Manchester M13 9PL. Email: tony.arn...@manchester.ac.uk -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
