double bucky
 adj.

    Using both the CTRL and META keys. ?The command to burn all LEDs is double
    bucky F.?

    This term originated on the Stanford extended-ASCII keyboard, and was later
    taken up by users of the space-cadet keyboard at MIT. A typical MIT
    comment was that the Stanford bucky bits (control and meta shifting keys)
    were nice, but there weren't enough of them; you could type only 512
    different characters on a Stanford keyboard. An obvious way to address this
    was simply to add more shifting keys, and this was eventually done; but a
    keyboard with that many shifting keys is hard on touch-typists, who don't
    like to move their hands away from the home position on the keyboard. It
    was half-seriously suggested that the extra shifting keys be implemented as
    pedals; typing on such a keyboard would be very much like playing a full
    pipe organ. This idea is mentioned in a parody of a very fine song by
    Jeffrey Moss called Rubber Duckie, which was published in The Sesame Street
    Songbook (Simon and Schuster 1971, ISBN 0-671-21036-X). These lyrics were
    written on May 27, 1978, in celebration of the Stanford keyboard:


    Double Bucky

    Double bucky, you're the one!
    You make my keyboard lots of fun.
        Double bucky, an additional bit or two:
    (Vo-vo-de-o!)
    Control and meta, side by side,
    Augmented ASCII, nine bits wide!
        Double bucky!  Half a thousand glyphs, plus a few!
    Oh,
    I sure wish that I
    Had a couple of
        Bits more!
    Perhaps a
    Set of pedals to
    Make the number of
        Bits four:
    Double double bucky!
    Double bucky, left and right
    OR'd together, outta sight!
        Double bucky, I'd like a whole word of
        Double bucky, I'm happy I heard of
        Double bucky, I'd like a whole word of you!

    ? The Great Quux (with apologies to Jeffrey Moss)

    [This, by the way, is an excellent example of computer filk ?ESR] See
    also meta bit, cokebottle, and quadruple bucky.

double bucky

   Using both the CTRL and META keys.  "The command to burn all
   LEDs is double bucky F."

   This term originated on the Stanford extended-ASCII keyboard,
   and was later taken up by users of the space-cadet keyboard
   at MIT.  A typical MIT comment was that the Stanford bucky
   bits (control and meta shifting keys) were nice, but there
   weren't enough of them; you could type only 512 different
   characters on a Stanford keyboard.  An obvious way to address
   this was simply to add more shifting keys, and this was
   eventually done; but a keyboard with that many shifting keys
   is hard on touch-typists, who don't like to move their hands
   away from the home position on the keyboard.  It was
   half-seriously suggested that the extra shifting keys be
   implemented as pedals; typing on such a keyboard would be very
   much like playing a full pipe organ.  This idea is mentioned
   in a parody of a very fine song by Jeffrey Moss called "Rubber
   Duckie", which was published in "The Sesame Street Songbook"
   (Simon and Schuster 1971, ISBN 0-671-21036-X).  These lyrics
   were written on May 27, 1978, in celebration of the Stanford
   keyboard:

                     Double Bucky

     Double bucky, you're the one!
     You make my keyboard lots of fun.
         Double bucky, an additional bit or two:
     (Vo-vo-de-o!)
     Control and meta, side by side,
     Augmented ASCII, nine bits wide!
         Double bucky!  Half a thousand glyphs, plus a few!
             Oh,
             I sure wish that I
             Had a couple of
                 Bits more!
             Perhaps a
             Set of pedals to
             Make the number of
                 Bits four:
             Double double bucky!
     Double bucky, left and right
     OR'd together, outta sight!
         Double bucky, I'd like a whole word of
         Double bucky, I'm happy I heard of
         Double bucky, I'd like a whole word of you!

     - The Great Quux

   (With apologies to Jeffrey Moss.  This, by the way, is an
   excellent example of computer filk --- ESR).

   See also meta bit, cokebottle, and quadruple bucky.

   [Jargon File]

   (1994-12-07)