Thanks so very much for that historical background.
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On Nov 12, 2024, at 11:47?PM, JR via groups.io <Yahoo_jr@...> wrote:
In the late 90's I worked at an Apple retailer... it's about that time you were able to by a Mac with an optional PC card in it that would allow you to run DOS and early versions of Windows. Later on in 2006 you could add Windows to your operating system and boot right into it using Boot Camp Assistant or Boot Camp. This only worked on Intel based Macs.
Per Wikipedia: "Boot Camp currently supports Windows 10 on a range of Macs dated mid-2012 or newer.^<(software)#cite_note-9> Apple Silicon <> is not supported due to being ARM-based <>. Although Windows 11 <> supports ARM64, the ARM64 version is only licensed to OEMs, and there are no drivers for the Apple silicon SoCs <>, so it cannot run on Apple Silicon Macs natively.
For that basic/simple reason, Apple made keyboards that had PC commands printed on SOME keys (though smaller print) that included "alt" on the option key, and the 4 leaf "clover" ? beside the ?.
I recall working on a PC keyboard and using "alt" + a decimal number to type accented characters and those miscellaneous lines to "build" forms with fancy frames and corners...
"Control" and the remaining keys were the same in either OS. I'm typing this on an old clear keyboard with black keys from my G4 days ¨C the Apple Pro keyboard from 2000.
In 2006 Apple improved Apple keyboard support (for Windows) including Delete, PrintScreen, NumLock, and ScrollLock keys. (I only have delete and num lock symbols on this keyboard.)
Cheers
Dinosaur JR
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Bev in TX
