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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