It lets you use Ubuntu on a Mac a little more easily :) (The crtl key was, iirc, added around 1986, when Apple started to bring out networking and terminal programmes which required it, usually for connecting to a mainframe. Insignia SoftPC, which let you run DOS apps on Macs, and so required a ctrl key, also came out around the same time.)
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Sean Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 1:23 PM, William Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hang on, what do you mean, no Ctrl key? I'm looking at the MacBook Pro >> keyboard I'm typing on right now, and there it is, a Ctrl key nestling >> between Fn and Option/Alt. This and the "there's no right mouse >> button"[1] fallacy really irritate me sometimes. > > Okay, so there's a Ctrl key. But it doesn't do what the control key > would normally do, that appears to be the job of the "Apple" key. > > So what precisely does the "Ctrl" key do on a Mac? > > Sean > > -- > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
