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bobomonkeyyesterday at 5:36 PM2 repliesview on HN

What did IBM want? Arrow keys?


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Terr_yesterday at 5:45 PM

Possibly, OS/2 co-development started in 1985, which is the same year IBM released the a keyboard with arrow keys.

Of course, that assumes it came from a place of corporate strategy rather than individual habit, which could have been learned from other older systems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PC_keyboard

kstrauseryesterday at 5:42 PM

Enter/return commonly used elsewhere.

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