Linked by alcibiades on Wed 10th May 2006 19:40 UTC
I started out as a Mac user in about 1985 in a world which will be totally unfamiliar to almost all readers of OSNews. You wrote out your stuff by longhand, and a secretary typed it on a word processor. If you were lucky and able to manage it, you could dictate it. But you did not dictate into a dictating machine, because these were big heavy and expensive. You dictated it directly to someone who could 'take shorthand'. If you had a PC, it ran DOS. You looked for your files, and moved them around, started applications, one at a time, from the command line, and the command line was not pretty, it was green on black.
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RE[4]: Me too, at least for work.
by twenex on Wed 10th May 2006 23:37
in reply to "RE[3]: Me too, at least for work."
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Also "V" looks like a mark you would make an paper to indicate an insertion between 2 words, not to mention it is right next to the keys for cut and copy.
Which is so blatantly obvious that I had to ask.
Since these particular shortcuts were first used on the mac it is the rest of the world that's esoteric.
That's like saying that all extant democracies are esoteric, because they're representative democracies and the Ancient Greeks, being the first to develop democracy, used the direct form.
Edited 2006-05-10 23:38
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So why does the Mac have not only esoteric keyboard shortcuts, but esoteric keys? Command-V (or is it Option-V?) for Paste? Where in the word "paste" is there a letter V?
Since these particular shortcuts were first used on the mac it is the rest of the world that's esoteric. Also "V" looks like a mark you would make an paper to indicate an insertion between 2 words, not to mention it is right next to the keys for cut and copy.