* Tom Knight <tk@mit.edu> [Mar 06. 2015 19:49]:
Those keyboard (in the original form) used hall effect switches, which I believe are now very rare. They were chosen for high reliability.
They would likely be quite pricey...
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I’m also amazed that a set of extremely useful features such as the “run bars” which take just a single pixel high at the bottom of the screen, and let you see processor, disk, and network activity have never made it into the mainstream.
There is xosview (and many others). OK, they use more than one pixel of height.
Also, the mouse documentation line, telling you what will happen when you click the mouse.
At least some KDE programs have a feature called "what's this?": after pressing shift-F1 you get "ballon tooltips" for any element you hover over.
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Best regards, jj