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double bucky
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adj. Using both the CTRL and META keys. The command to burn all LEDs is
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double bucky F. This term originated on the Stanford extended-ASCII
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keyboard, and was later taken up by users of the space-cadet keyboard at
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MIT. A typical MIT comment was that the Stanford bucky bits (control and
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meta shifting keys) were nice, but there weren't enough of them; you could
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type only 512 different characters on a Stanford keyboard. An obvious way to
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address this was simply to add more shifting keys, and this was eventually
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done; but a keyboard with that many shifting keys is hard on touch-typists,
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who don't like to move their hands away from the home position on the
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keyboard. It was half-seriously suggested that the extra shifting keys be
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implemented as pedals; typing on such a keyboard would be very much like
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playing a full pipe organ. This idea is mentioned in a parody of a very fine
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song by Jeffrey Moss called Rubber Duckie , which was published in The
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Sesame Street Songbook (Simon and Schuster 1971, ISBN 0-671-21036-X). These
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lyrics were written on May 27, 1978, in celebration of the Stanford
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keyboard: DoubleBucky Doublebucky,you'retheone! Youmakemykeyboardlotsoffun.
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Doublebucky,anadditionalbitortwo: (Vo-vo-de-o!) Controlandmeta,sidebyside,
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AugmentedASCII,ninebitswide! Doublebucky!Halfathousandglyphs,plusafew! Oh,
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IsurewishthatI Hadacoupleof Bitsmore! Perhapsa Setofpedalsto Makethenumberof
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Bitsfour: Doubledoublebucky! Doublebucky,leftandright
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OR'dtogether,outtasight! Doublebucky,I'dlikeawholewordof
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Doublebucky,I'mhappyIheardof Doublebucky,I'dlikeawholewordofyou!
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TheGreatQuux(withapologiestoJeffreyMoss) See also meta bit, cokebottle,
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and quadruple bucky.
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