Re:Never trust a system that seems to be working
by sneak on Monday October 17, 2022 @06:57PM
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I know what you meant. I was implying that a 101-105 key keyboard has not been standard for a decade or more.
I would be willing to bet that none of the ten most popular/best-selling computers in the country for the last 5-10 years have had a key that says “break”.
Re:Never trust a system that seems to be working
by ninjanomnom on Monday October 17, 2022 @07:24PM
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You're talking about laptops which you're right, are probably more popular than desktops, but taking a look right now at a few different laptops near me shows they have break as a function key. Take 3 data points as you will.
I'll take that bet and offer up a break key from my active keyboard if I'm wrong.
Re:Never trust a system that seems to be working
by jackvalentine on Monday October 17, 2022 @07:27PM
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The 10 most popular/bestselling computers in the last 10 years definitely would include the Dell optiplex line that comes standard with a full size keyboard that has a Pause/Break key.
Re:Never trust a system that seems to be working
by sneak on Monday October 17, 2022 @09:41PM
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Nope, they’re all laptops.
Re:Never trust a system that seems to be working
by int_19h on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @04:49PM
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Even on laptops, there's still usually a Pause/Break key, it's just merged with something else such that you have to use Fn.
For example, on most modern Thinkpads, Pause is Fn+P, and thus Break is Ctrl+Fn+P.
Strictly speaking, there is no Break key in the same sense that there is no SysRq key—there are only special Break and SysRq scancodes that AT and PS/2 keyboards send instead of Pause and Print Screen when Ctrl or Alt respectively is depressed (thus the combined labels), while USB keyboards don’t even have those, they just send normal modifier sequences. But I don’t think that’s what you had in mind :)