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> You know, I don't use the term "any key" but am I
> alone in thinking you'd have to be a moron not to be
> able to figure it out?
Don't forget that along with the new user's ignorance
comes a fear of the horrible consequences that may be
triggered by a wrong guess. You don't even understand
what the computer does when it's working correctly. What
it does when it's misused must be enough to get you fired
or at least stigmatized for life.
Maybe "any key" really means any key. Or maybe in the
incomprehensible jargon of computerese-- which everyone
has been treating you like a moron for not understanding--
it really means something else. Maybe it's one of those
keys with the funny symbols.
Yes, in some cases "any key" was changed to "Enter key".
We made the change where I worked, in the 1980s. The
product was educational software for junior-high students.
Today the average kid in junior high is probably more
computer-literate than our programmers were back then.
But everyone's a novice to begin with...
Mark L. Levinson
nosnivel -at- netvision -dot- net -dot- il
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