It annoyed me to no end that the calculator button placement like "=" didn't line up with the order on their own keyboard.
But then knowing it was set in stone before Apple made a full keyboard for the Mac made it make sense.
Remember P-Cal? Its still around
There are two equals buttons?
... Is that why it was so flexible in ResEdit?
i thought this was actually a well established fact
Happy to learn about this! Though i read random articles on folklore.org this has escaped me. This story is also really relevant today as design is at a turning point where either things go towards a more traditional ai enhanced pipeline with changes happening in something generic like figma, or moving towards directly generating parametrised live UI with custom specialised sliders and other settings for everything. I had my first experience with this reality trying to vibe code a webgl shader and giving up trying to fine tune with prompts. Things were just so much more productive after generating the ui for all interesting shader parameters. My bet is that this will replace 50% of figma usecases.