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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>double bucky</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../D.html" title="D"/><link rel="previous" href="dot-file.html" title="dot file"/><link rel="next" href="doubled-sig.html" title="doubled sig"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">double bucky</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="dot-file.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">D</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="doubled-sig.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="double-bucky"/><dt xmlns="" id="double-bucky"><b>double bucky</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Using both the CTRL and META keys. “<span class="quote">The command to burn all
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LEDs is double bucky F.</span>”</p></dd><dd><p>This term originated on the Stanford extended-ASCII keyboard, and was
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later taken up by users of the <a href="../S/space-cadet-keyboard.html"><i class="glossterm">space-cadet keyboard</i></a>
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at MIT. A typical MIT comment was that the Stanford
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<a href="../B/bucky-bits.html"><i class="glossterm">bucky bits</i></a> (control and meta shifting keys) were nice, but there
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weren't enough of them; you could type only 512 different characters on a
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Stanford keyboard. An obvious way to address this was simply to add more
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shifting keys, and this was eventually done; but a keyboard with that many
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shifting keys is hard on touch-typists, who don't like to move their hands
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away from the home position on the keyboard. It was half-seriously
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suggested that the extra shifting keys be implemented as pedals; typing on
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such a keyboard would be very much like playing a full pipe organ. This
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idea is mentioned in a parody of a very fine song by Jeffrey Moss called
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<i class="citetitle">Rubber Duckie</i>, which was published in <i class="citetitle">The
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Sesame Street Songbook</i> (Simon and Schuster 1971, ISBN
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0-671-21036-X). These lyrics were written on May 27, 1978, in celebration
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of the Stanford keyboard:</p><div class="literallayout"><p><br/>
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Double Bucky<br/>
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<br/>
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Double bucky, you're the one!<br/>
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You make my keyboard lots of fun.<br/>
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Double bucky, an additional bit or two:<br/>
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(Vo-vo-de-o!)<br/>
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Control and meta, side by side,<br/>
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Augmented ASCII, nine bits wide!<br/>
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Double bucky! Half a thousand glyphs, plus a few!<br/>
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Oh,<br/>
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I sure wish that I<br/>
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Had a couple of<br/>
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Bits more!<br/>
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Perhaps a<br/>
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Set of pedals to<br/>
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Make the number of<br/>
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Bits four:<br/>
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Double double bucky!<br/>
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Double bucky, left and right<br/>
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OR'd together, outta sight!<br/>
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Double bucky, I'd like a whole word of<br/>
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Double bucky, I'm happy I heard of<br/>
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Double bucky, I'd like a whole word of you!<br/>
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<br/>
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— The Great Quux (with apologies to Jeffrey Moss)<br/>
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</p></div><p>[This, by the way, is an excellent example of computer
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<a href="../F/filk.html"><i class="glossterm">filk</i></a> —ESR] See also
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<a href="../M/meta-bit.html"><i class="glossterm">meta bit</i></a>, <a href="../C/cokebottle.html"><i class="glossterm">cokebottle</i></a>, and
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<a href="../Q/quadruple-bucky.html"><i class="glossterm">quadruple bucky</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="dot-file.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="doubled-sig.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">dot file </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> doubled sig</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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