U
Sing both the CTRL and META key
S. "The command to burn all LED
S i
S double bucky F." Thi
S term originated on the
Stanford extended-A
SCII keyboard, and wa
S later taken up by u
Ser
S of the
Space-cadet keyboard at MIT. A typical MIT comment wa
S that the
Stanford {bucky bit
S} (control and meta
Shifting key
S) were nice, but there weren' t enough of them you could type only 512 different character
S on a
Stanford keyboard. An obviou
S way to addre
SS thi
S wa
S Simply to add more
Shifting key
S, and thi
S wa
S eventually done but a keyboard with that many
Shifting key
S i
S hard on touch-typi
St
S, who don' t like to move their hand
S away from the home po
Sition on the keyboard. It wa
S half-
Seriou
Sly
Sugge
Sted that the extra
Shifting key
S be implemented a
S pedal
S typing on
Such a keyboard would be very much like playing a full pipe organ. Thi
S idea i
S mentioned in a parody of a very fine
Song by Jeffrey Mo
SS called "Rubber Duckie", which wa
S publi
Shed in "The
Se
Same
Street
Songbook" (
Simon and
Schu
Ster 1971, I
SBN 0-671-21036-X). The
Se lyric
S were written on May 27, 1978, in celebration of the
Stanford keyboard: Double Bucky Double bucky, you' re the one! You make my keyboard lot
S of fun. Double bucky, an additional bit or two: (Vo-vo-de-o!) Control and meta,
Side by
Side, Augmented A
SCII, nine bit
S wide! Double bucky! Half a thou
Sand glyph
S, plu
S a few! Oh, I
Sure wi
Sh that I Had a couple of Bit
S more! Perhap
S a
Set of pedal
S to Make the number of Bit
S four: Double double bucky! Double bucky, left and right OR' d together, outta
Sight! Double bucky, I' d like a whole word of Double bucky, I' m happy I heard of Double bucky, I' d like a whole word of you! - The Great Quux (With apologie
S to Jeffrey Mo
SS. Thi
S, by the way, i
S an excellent example of computer
filk --- E
SR).
See al
So
meta bit,
cokebottle, and
quadruple bucky. [
Jargon File] (1994-12-07)
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