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Answer by user24174 for Why does NumLock exist?
Way back in 1978 Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) introduced the VT100 terminal. This was a market leader at the time and design decisions were to influence the subsequent history of all terminals,...
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Raffzahn gave a fine, complete answer. Don't mean to compete with any fact or conclusion drawn in it.As they say, "that said"... There's a little more.Consider the layout of the arrow keys in the first...
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The NumLock key still exists because some people like the numeric block to act as numbers and others prefer them to have their classic cursor-motion capability. This capability offers an intuitive way...
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Answer by Raffzahn for Why does NumLock exist?
My keyboard has over a hundred keys on it. But there's one labelled "NumLock".Simply because the dedicated cursor keys were not there to begin with. As seen here with the original PC Model F Keyboard...
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My keyboard has over a hundred keys on it. But there's one labelled NumLock. Pressing it turns the numeric keypad into a duplicate of the dedicated arrow keys just left of it. This doesn't seem useful...
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