Never trust a system that seems to be working

Re:Never trust a system that seems to be working by sneak on Monday October 17, 2022 @06:57PM (#33240597)

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”.

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Re:Never trust a system that seems to be working by ninjanomnom on Monday October 17, 2022 @07:24PM (#33240883)

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.

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Re:Never trust a system that seems to be working by jackvalentine on Monday October 17, 2022 @07:27PM (#33240918)

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.

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Re:Never trust a system that seems to be working by sneak on Monday October 17, 2022 @09:41PM (#33241991)

Nope, they’re all laptops.

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Re:Never trust a system that seems to be working by int_19h on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @04:49PM (#33267754)

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.

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