Talk:Bucky bit

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Not sure how to format this comment, but shouldn't Microsoft's Window key be included as a bucky-bit key now? Also, I'm wondering about the case of keyboards that have right and left <Alt> or <Ctrl> keys. Shouldn't they be regarded as separate bucky bits? Shanen (talk) 06:15, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Nope, the windows key is ctrl+escape. Exactly.

you can press ctrl+escape+r and that's exactly the same as windows+r

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I was at Stanford when the term Bucky Bit was invented. It originally referred to the two extra modifier keys on the Philco display terminals on the PDP-1, referred to individually as “left Bucky” and “right Bucky”. The two modifier keys controled the high two bits transmitted from the keyboard to the CPU. Professor Wirth's nickname was "Bucky Beaver". Unfortunately, I do not have authoratitive refreences for these statements—they are based only on my memory. John Sauter (talk) 15:18, 28 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]