Mattel IntelliVision II 5872 Manuel d'utilisateur télécharger pdf (Page 213)

The doom of the bit-paired keyboard was the large-scale introduction

of the computer terminal into the normal office environment, where

out-and-out technophobes were expected to use the equipment. The

`typewriter-paired' standard became universal, X4.14 was superseded by

X4.23-1982, `bit-paired' hardware was quickly junked or relegated to

dusty corners, and both terms passed into disuse.

However, in countries without a long history of touch typing, the

argument against the bit-paired keyboard layout was weak or

nonexistent. As a result, the standard Japanese keyboard, used on PCs,

Unix boxen etc. still has all of the !"#$%&'() characters above the

numbers in the ASR-33 layout.

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bitblt /bit'blit/ n.

[from [1407]BLT, q.v.] 1. [common] Any of a family of closely related

algorithms for moving and copying rectangles of bits between main and

display memory on a bit-mapped device, or between two areas of either

main or display memory (the requirement to do the [1408]Right Thing in

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