Knight keyboard
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The Knight keyboard, designed by Tom Knight, was used with the MIT-AI lab's bitmapped display system.[1] It was a precursor to the space-cadet keyboard and the later Symbolics keyboard.
Influence
[edit]The Knight keyboard is notable for its influence on Emacs keybindings, particularly for helping popularize the meta key, which originated with the Stanford keyboard.[2] The layout is also noteworthy: the meta key was outside the control key, which is opposite from the layout used on most modern keyboards, dating to the Model M IBM PC keyboard, which uses the Alt key instead, and places it inward to the control key.[3]
References
[edit]- ↑ The Knight keyboard.
- ↑ Raymond, Eric S.; Steele, Guy L. (1996). The New Hacker's Dictionary. MIT Press. p. 420. ISBN 9780262680929.
- ↑ Xah Lee. "History of Emacs ＆ vi Keys (Keyboard Influence on Keybinding Design)".
External links
[edit]- Xah Lee (2011-10-27). "Space-cadet Keyboard and Lisp Machine Keyboards".
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