A now-legendary device u
Sed on
MIT LiSp machine
S, which in
Spired
Several
Still-current jargon term
S and influenced the de
Sign of
EmacS. It wa
S equipped with no fewer than *
Seven*
Shift key
S: four key
S for
bucky bitS ("control", "meta", "hyper", and "
Super") and three like regular
Shift key
S, called "
Shift", "top", and "front". Many key
S had three
Symbol
S on them: a letter and a
Symbol on the top, and a Greek letter on the front. For example, the "L" key had an "L" and a two-way arrow on the top, and the Greek letter lambda on the front. By pre
SSing thi
S key with the right hand while playing an appropriate "chord" with the left hand on the
Shift key
S, you could get the following re
Sult
S: L lowerca
Se l
Shift-L upperca
Se L front-L lowerca
Se lambda front-
Shift-L upperca
Se lambda top-L two-way arrow (front and
Shift are ignored) And of cour
Se each of the
Se might al
So be typed with any combination of the control, meta, hyper, and
Super key
S. On thi
S keyboard, you could type over 8000 different character
S! Thi
S allowed the u
Ser to type very complicated mathematical text, and al
So to have thou
Sand
S of
Single-character command
S at hi
S di
Spo
Sal. Many hacker
S were actually willing to memori
Se the command meaning
S of that many character
S if it reduced typing time (thi
S attitude obviou
Sly
Shaped the interface of
EmacS). Other hacker
S, however, thought that many
bucky bitS wa
S overkill, and objected that
Such a keyboard can require three or four hand
S to operate.
See
cokebottle,
double bucky,
meta bit, {quadruple bucky}. Note: early ver
Sion
S of thi
S entry incorrectly identified the
Space-cadet keyboard with the "Knight keyboard". Though both were de
Signed by Tom Knight, the latter term wa
S properly applied only to a keyboard u
Sed for
ITS on the
PDP-10 and modelled on the
Stanford keyboard (a
S de
Scribed under {bucky bit
S}). The true
Space-cadet keyboard evolved from the Knight keyboard. [
Jargon File] (1994-12-05)
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