Re: Keyboard Shift "X" in a display file: has anbody ever encountered it in real life?

That was part of the Displaywriter (very early word processor) that had its own hardware, was a stand alone product for DOS/Windows, and was part of OfficeVision for a while. Dead,dead,dead. MS Word killed them. Too bad too, because I thought it was superior at the time.

Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects

On Nov 10, 2022, at 6:24 PM, James H. H. Lampert via MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm wondering about the "X" keyboard shift: it's supposed to accept uppercase letters, commas, periods, hyphens, and spaces, but nothing else.

Does that have any practical use? Does it ever actually get used in real life? Or was it just something that somebody at IBM implemented because "it seemed like a good idea at the time"?
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