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double bucky adj.

Using both the CTRL and META keys. "The command to burn all

LEDs is double bucky F."

This term originated on the Stanford extended-ASCII keyboard,

and was later taken up by users of the space-cadet keyboard at MIT. A

typical MIT comment was that the Stanford bucky bits (control and meta shifting

keys) were nice, but there weren't enough of them; you could type

only 512 different characters on a Stanford keyboard. An obvious

way to address this was simply to add more shifting keys, and

this was eventually done; but a keyboard with that many shifting

keys is hard on touch-typists, who don't like to move their hands

away from the home position on the keyboard. It was

half-seriously suggested that the extra shifting keys be

implemented as pedals; typing on such a keyboard would be very

much like playing a full pipe organ. This idea is mentioned in a

parody of a very fine song by Jeffrey Moss called "Rubber

Duckie", which was published in "The Sesame Street Songbook"

(Simon and Schuster 1971, ISBN 0-671-21036-X). These lyrics were

written on May 27, 1978, in celebration of the Stanford

keyboard:

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