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Originally Posted by Rambler123
You want to talk about idiotic keyboard layouts? Then I've got one for you...
It was the late 1990's and I was doing a co-op job while in college at a local DoD contractor. Back then, they all had workstations running various flavors of Unix for the big engineering tools. Well, the Sun workstations took the cake. Aside from running an inferior UNIX GUI when compared to the HP workstations, they also placed a power button on the keyboard... next to the Delete key. Yes, this meant that if your fingers missed the Delete key while typing quickly, you could hit the power button and turn the computer off. It was beyond stupid and one of the worst examples of failed user interfaces I've ever seen in the computer world.
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Fun fact - Apple's MacBook Airs have a power key right above the delete (backspace) key, and in 10.9 they made it so that pressing that key instantly put the computer to sleep. Combine that with a bug where if you hit a key before it completely goes to sleep, it hangs up, the screen stays black, and you have to power off the computer, and it made for a maddening experience. Fortunately they finally fixed that behavior so you have to hold it down for a second in order to get it to go to sleep.
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