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Re:The day Return became Enter by kimixa on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @01:08AM (#45099337)
I remember back in the day I had a demo disc where one of the installers (I think it was Theme Park?) had a prompt of "Press return to quit, press enter to continue". And that confused single-digit-years me for a surprising amount of time, as there wasn't, to my mind, a real difference between the two keys.

Even then I assume it was really a troll as much as anything else.

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Re:The day Return became Enter by Doxin on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @02:33AM (#45099764)
Perhaps a confused translation of escape/enter happening there? I don't think there's many (if any) PCs with both a return key and an enter key.
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Re:The day Return became Enter by kimixa on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @03:29AM (#45100106)
No, I definitely remember it behaving differently if I pressed "return" (right of "#" on the keyboard) vs "enter" (on the numpad).

EDIT: In the US I guess that's right of "'"? Below backspace, above the right shift.

The reason I remember is it took me quite a while to actually run the damn thing :P

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Re:The day Return became Enter by brianpan on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @02:52AM (#45099894)
My experience is with IBM AT and OS 2 which had a Return and a numpad with an Enter. The AT and Model M keyboard at least were part of a very popular and influential generation or two of "PC".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_M_keyboard

EDIT: Holy cow, those Model M pictures are so nostalgic.

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