Comment 81 for bug 408903

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In , Alan Coopersmith (alan-coopersmith) wrote :

(In reply to comment #4)
> Not in common use. The M keyboard only has 12, and the Sun keyboard only has
> 12. Seems that every PC vendor and certainly every laptop maker only goes up to
> F12. Even the X Termainal photo from Wikipedia only has up to F12

Sun keyboards in the 80's had 35 F-keys - since around 1990 many of those were
relabeled - the left side keys to the SunStop, SunProps, etc and the right side
to the numeric keypad. Those were only found on the old Sun 4 and older
systems, not any UltraSPARC, x86 or AMD64 systems. I think other Unix
workstations from the era had similarly large amounts of F keys for the
CAD/CAM applications of the time, but those fell out of use over the years.