[Info-vax] PC/VT Keyboarrd Mapping

[Bob Koehler]

In article <nkglq6$p3s$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes:
> 
> VSI has a choice to make.  Adopt the PC keyboard in OpenVMS software 
> and RTLs and in the documentation, adopt some other keyboard such as 
> the Apple extended wired, or get into the traditional LK keyboard 
> manufacturing business directly or with Nemonix or some other vendor.  
> Or continue to ignore the keyboard difficulties and presume that the 
> VT/LK keyboard interface is an emulator problem, which has been the 
> keyboard strategy for a while.  But those existing LK keyboards are all 
> aging out.  That's even if VSI's statements against plans for OpenVMS 
> workstation support hold, as you'll still need console or iLO or DRAC 
> keyboard access for the baseline configuration and then for server 
> management operations, as OpenVMS can't (yet?) be remotely managed, 
> provisioned and deployed.

   I've asked for this before, and I'll say it again.  VMS needs to have
   keyboard layouts for EDT and DEBUG that are PC friendly.  TPU's
   predefined keyboards should also have that variation.

   But I mean full PC keyboards, with all 3 keypads.  Anyone who wants
   to live without the other keypads can run vi and gdb, for all I care.