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on Thursday June 18 2015, @03:05AM
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from the Knowledge...so-much...so-fast.-It's-glorious! dept.
El Reg reports on upcoming keyboard ideas from Toshiba:
Toshiba USA has revealed that it will add a key dedicated to summoning Cortana, Windows 10's digital assistant.
Toshiba's Jeff Barney, the company's veep and GM for all things PC in North America, says the new button will appear on every keyboard the company sells.
PCWorld reports that "the key will sit in the upper left area, near the function keys".
A quick glance at the many keyboards in Vulture Souths eyrie suggests that this means the ESC key is in peril.
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Cortana Threatens to Blow-away your "Esc" Key
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(Score: 2, Informative) by TWX on Thursday June 18 2015, @10:07PM
You never played first-person shooters in the era when the Window and Menu keys first appeared; the games would play under Windows but would get very, very angry when those keys were hit by mistake. It often wasn't possible to return to the game, and even if one could return it usually meant one was killed several times over before one managed to find one's way back in.
And for those wondering why someone was playing a DOS game in Windows, it was for the network services so one could play against others that weren't in the same LAN segment or through dialup Internet. Not as easy to do those in DOS as it was in Windows 95.
IBM had PL/1, with syntax worse than JOSS...
and everywhere the language went, it was a total loss.
(Score: 2) by TK on Friday June 19 2015, @01:57PM
I remember playing DOS games on a Windows 95 desktop. Platformers loved to use Ctrl as jump and alt as fire. Well guess what's between those two bastards?!?!
Of course, by the time I'd switched back to the game window, I was usually dead. That is, if the game could even manage to get back there without crashing.
Kids these days with their USB game pads and their alt+tab that doesn't force you to reboot. Luxury! [youtube.com]
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