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Marcin Wichary
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Marcin Wichary

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Writing a book about the history of keyboards: http://aresluna.org/shift-happens  · Design manager @figmadesign · Typographer · Occasional speaker · He/him

San Francisco, Calif.
Joined October 2009

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    1. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 26 Aug 2017
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      An abridged list of actual HOLY SHIT TERRIFYING error messages from an early word processor (WPS) from 1976.pic.twitter.com/Ia3QQ0VQNa

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    2. Christopher Kraken‏ @ChrisKraken 27 Aug 2017
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      Where is Segmentation Fault???

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    3. James Railton‏ @JaRail 27 Aug 2017
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      Not sure if WPS refers to Word Perfect or MS Works (had .wps files). Either way, I think DOS-based so no segfaults (unix terminology).

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    4. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 27 Aug 2017
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      It was a Wang Laboratories WPS machine.

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    5. Richard Zach‏ @RrrichardZach 28 Aug 2017
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      "Press EXECUTE": dead giveaway.

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    6. Richard Zach‏ @RrrichardZach 28 Aug 2017
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      Why don't our keyboards have "Cancel" keys? Did Wang have a patent on it? Or "Escape" chosen just to not conflict with Wang, and it stuck?

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    7. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 28 Aug 2017
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      A good question. I can speculate that the IBM PC 5150 keyboard that influenced all of them today has [Esc] because earlier terminals did…

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    8. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 28 Aug 2017
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      …(and earlier home computers influenced by terminals?), and the key sort of inherited its current meaning some time later in the 1980s.

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    9. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 28 Aug 2017
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      Or perhaps it was even added explicitly in 1981 for terminal emulation.

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    10. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 28 Aug 2017
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      (The IBM 5150 manual makes references to terminals.)

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      My guess is that they didn’t really look at Wang and so on (specialized machines), and borrowed from earlier computers/terminals.

      8:02 AM - 28 Aug 2017
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        1. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 28 Aug 2017
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          (I’m still trying to find info in IBM Archives + ask some people who have been around.)

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