Goodbye SysReq We Hardly Knew Ya
We already know that Lenovo are something of the fastidious scientists when it comes to keyboard design. Last time they fiddled with the age-old key layout, it was after painstaking research to count exactly how many times users press the Delete and Escape keys. Result? They made the Delete and Escape keys a bit bigger.
Now Lenovo has decided we’re ready for another relic of computer keyboards to change, at least on some laptops. The once familiar “SysRq”, or System Request key, has been removed entirely from several of Lenovo’s new Thinkpad Edge laptops.
The SysRq key was originally intended to allow console operators on early mainframes to trigger low level system commands. It can still be used in certain situations, such as the “Magic SysRq” key combination within Linux.
Lenovo bucks tradition, ditches SysRq button on some keyboards – News – PC Authority
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