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Unix layouts?
Posted: 10 Aug 2022, 19:48
by Thorogrimm
What are some good keyboards with unix layouts? Currently I own an HHKB and a Sun Type 5 (but can't use it) and was wondering what others there are which are decent keyboards at the very least?
Re: Unix layouts?
Posted: 10 Aug 2022, 22:27
by Muirium
DT’s
authoritatively infallible and incontrovertibly complete wiki says
UNIX layout pretty much is the HHKB:
I think (without split right Shift) it should be called Sun layout, but what would I know?
…
Reading up on Sun keyboards (ignored them till now for f&f and domes) I must admit I like the looks of
this one:
Beautiful design. Imagine that with switches deserving the name!
Also, yes, I see that Caps Lock in the usual (dumb) place
and the split right Shift! The more I look, the less Sun boards follow the layout I thought was their legacy. Ah well.
Re: Unix layouts?
Posted: 11 Aug 2022, 00:00
by BuGless
Muirium wrote: ↑10 Aug 2022, 22:27
Also, yes, I see that Caps Lock in the usual (dumb) place
and the split right Shift! The more I look, the less Sun boards follow the layout I thought was their legacy. Ah well.
You should be looking at older Sun keyboards, they did it right.
Re: Unix layouts?
Posted: 11 Aug 2022, 11:54
by Menuhin
Re: Unix layouts?
Posted: 11 Aug 2022, 12:01
by Thorogrimm
Thanks for the pointers!
I also need a cable for it though, which I don't currently have
since it didn't come with one
Re: Unix layouts?
Posted: 11 Aug 2022, 12:03
by Menuhin
Muirium wrote: ↑10 Aug 2022, 22:27
...
Beautiful design...
I like Sun's older keyboards as well as Silicon Graphics' "Granite" keyboards much more than most of the average IBM keyboards (model F & M) in terms of their overall industrial design.
RIP Sun MicroSystem & SGI...
Re: Unix layouts?
Posted: 11 Aug 2022, 12:47
by Findecanor
BTW. There are many DIY keyboard kits for Cherry MX/style switches that support Unix layout as an option. The only
physical difference from ANSI is the "split backspace". The rest is in the keycaps and programming.
TMK has Sun support too:
https://github.com/tmk/tmk_keyboard/tre ... er/sun_usb
Menuhin wrote: ↑11 Aug 2022, 12:03
RIP Sun MicroSystem & SGI...
Here here.
Even though the hardware was discontinued a long time ago, some of the software still lives on in Illumos (open-source fork of Solaris), and the file-systems ZFS (Sun) and XFS (SGI) that are available in multiple OS:es.