Re: Press any key to continue?

On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:13:48 -0700 (PDT), Bamm <bammster@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I'd just want to add: when I was new using computers, I never had
trouble pressing any key - I thought is was pretty straightforward
English, and I am not a native English speaker!

However I did have trouble finding the RETURN key. I had an ENTER key,
but it took me several weeks to figure out that they were the same.

I am not a native english speaker either, so maybe I misunderstood,
but Return and Enter key are not the same.
Although the difference today is less known that it was, apart from
the return key being the left one on an average keyboard, and enter
key being the right-down one, there is also the difference in their
function. For which I leave you with wikipedia, or EDT editor which
one used to use under msdos :-)



At least telling a user to press "any" key had double meaning; one may
interpret it the right or wrong way. However there is nothing in
standard English to suggest that the words Return and Enter are
somehow synonymous. One has to have good background in computer
history for this to be naturally understood.

pozdrav
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