double bucky

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:

   Double Bucky
   Double bucky, you're the one!
   You make my keyboard lots of fun.
    Double bucky, an additional bit or two:
   (Vo-vo-de-o!)
   Control and meta, side by side,
   Augmented ASCII, nine bits wide!
    Double bucky!  Half a thousand glyphs, plus a few!
   Oh,
   I sure wish that I
   Had a couple of
    Bits more!
   Perhaps a
   Set of pedals to
   Make the number of
    Bits four:
   Double double bucky!
   Double bucky, left and right
   OR'd together, outta sight!
    Double bucky, I'd like a whole word of
    Double bucky, I'm happy I heard of
    Double bucky, I'd like a whole word of you!
   -- The Great Quux (with apologies to Jeffrey Moss)

   [This, by the way, is an excellent example of computer {filk} --ESR]
   See also {meta bit}, {cokebottle}, and {quadruple bucky}.
    

double bucky

   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:

                     Double Bucky

     Double bucky, you're the one!
     You make my keyboard lots of fun.
         Double bucky, an additional bit or two:
     (Vo-vo-de-o!)
     Control and meta, side by side,
     Augmented ASCII, nine bits wide!
         Double bucky!  Half a thousand glyphs, plus a few!
             Oh,
             I sure wish that I
             Had a couple of
                 Bits more!
             Perhaps a
             Set of pedals to
             Make the number of
                 Bits four:
             Double double bucky!
     Double bucky, left and right
     OR'd together, outta sight!
         Double bucky, I'd like a whole word of
         Double bucky, I'm happy I heard of
         Double bucky, I'd like a whole word of you!

     - The Great Quux

   (With apologies to Jeffrey Moss.  This, by the way, is an
   excellent example of computer {filk} --- ESR).

   See also {meta bit}, {cokebottle}, and {quadruple bucky}.

   [{Jargon File}]

   (1994-12-07)