Knight keyboard

{{Short description|Early 1970s computer keyboard used at the MIT-AI lab}}

File:Novena + Knight keyboard (16277937833).jpg computer being used with a Knight keyboard]]

The Knight keyboard, designed by Tom Knight, was used with the MIT-AI lab's bitmapped display system.[http://world.std.com/~jdostale/kbd/Knight.html The Knight keyboard]. It was a precursor to the space-cadet keyboard and the later Symbolics keyboard.

Influence

The Knight keyboard is notable for its influence on Emacs keybindings, particularly for helping popularize the meta key, which originated with the Stanford keyboard.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g80P_4v4QbIC&q=%22Stanford+keyboard%22&pg=PA158|title=The New Hacker's Dictionary|last1=Raymond|first1=Eric S.|last2=Steele|first2=Guy L.|date=1996|publisher=MIT Press|isbn=9780262680929|pages=420|language=en}} The layout is also noteworthy: the meta key was outside the control key, which is opposite from the layout used on most modern keyboards, dating to the Model M IBM PC keyboard, which uses the Alt key instead, and places it inward to the control key.{{cite web

|url=http://xahlee.info/kbd/keyboard_hardware_and_key_choices.html

|title=History of Emacs ＆ vi Keys (Keyboard Influence on Keybinding Design)

|author=Xah Lee

}}

References

External links

{{cite web

|title=Space-cadet Keyboard and Lisp Machine Keyboards

|author=Xah Lee

|date=2011-10-27

|url=http://xahlee.info/kbd/lisp_keyboards.html}}

Category:Computer keyboard types