A now-legendary device used on
href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=MIT">MIT href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=Lisp">Lisp mac
hines, w
hic
h inspired several still-current jargon terms and influenced t
he design of
href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=Emacs">Emacs. It was equipped wit
h no fewer t
han *seven* s
hift keys: four keys for
href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=bucky bits">bucky bits ("control", "meta", "
hyper", and "super") and t
hree like regular s
hift keys, called "s
hift", "top", and "front". Many keys
had t
hree symbols on t
hem: a letter and a symbol on t
he top, and a Greek letter on t
he front. For example, t
he "L" key
had an "L" and a two-way arrow on t
he top, and t
he Greek letter lambda on t
he front. By pressing t
his key wit
h t
he rig
ht
hand w
hile playing an appropriate "c
hord" wit
h t
he left
hand on t
he s
hift keys, you could get t
he following results: L lowercase l s
hift-L uppercase L front-L lowercase lambda front-s
hift-L uppercase lambda top-L two-way arrow (front and s
hift are ignored) And of course eac
h of t
hese mig
ht also be typed wit
h any combination of t
he control, meta,
hyper, and super keys. On t
his keyboard, you could type over 8000 different c
haracters! T
his allowed t
he user to type very complicated mat
hematical text, and also to
have t
housands of single-c
haracter commands at
his disposal. Many
hackers were actually willing to memorise t
he command meanings of t
hat many c
haracters if it reduced typing time (t
his attitude obviously s
haped t
he interface of
href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=Emacs">Emacs). Ot
her
hackers,
however, t
houg
ht t
hat many
href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=bucky bit">bucky bits was overkill, and objected t
hat suc
h a keyboard can require t
hree or four
hands to operate. See
href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=cokebottle">cokebottle,
href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=double bucky">double bucky,
href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=meta bit">meta bit, {quadruple bucky}. Note: early versions of t
his entry incorrectly identified t
he space-cadet keyboard wit
h t
he "Knig
ht keyboard". T
houg
h bot
h were designed by Tom Knig
ht, t
he latter term was properly applied only to a keyboard used for
href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=ITS">ITS on t
he
href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=PDP-10">PDP-10 and modelled on t
he Stanford keyboard (as described under {bucky bits}). T
he true space-cadet keyboard evolved from t
he Knig
ht keyboard. [
href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=Jargon File">Jargon File] (1994-12-05)
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[ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=4520">file ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=4700">fo ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=4727">for ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=4828">fr ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=4983">G ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=5057">ge ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=5070">gen ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=5134">gh ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=5171">gl ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=5205">gn ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=5390">gs ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=5403">gu ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=5434">h ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=5438">hack ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=5443">hacker ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=5540">hat ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=5768">hr ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=5779">ht ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=5931">id ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=5956">ie ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=5986">iff ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=6013">il ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=6064">in ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=6068">inc ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=6194">int ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=6274">interface ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=6413">io ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=6449">ir ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=6482">is ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=6557">IT ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=6558">it ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=6568">ITS ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=6589">J ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=6619">jar ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=6620">Jargon File ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=6760">K ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=6789">ke ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=6802">key ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=6803">keyboard ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=6822">ki ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=6906">ky ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=6918">la ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=7023">ld ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=7091">Lex ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=7107">li ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=7203">Lisp ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=7399">ls ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=7410">lt ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=7415">lu ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=7437">lv ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=7441">ly ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=7457">M ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=7463">ma ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=7479">machine ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=7582">man ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=7787">meta ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=7789">meta bit ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=7992">MIT ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=8019">mm ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=8032">mo ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=8040">mod ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=8046">mode ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=8050">model ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=8079">module ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=8167">mp ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=8228">ms ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=8384">N ] [ 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href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=11010">sc ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=11150">se ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=11314">sh ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=11376">si ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=11389">sig ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=11525">sl ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=11651">so ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=11757">space ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=11934">st ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=12133">su ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=12246">sy ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=12359">T ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=12360"> ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=12567">text ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=12588">th ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=12721">to ] [ 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