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<blockquote data-quote="technologist" data-source="post: 614713" data-attributes="member: 4134">It has everything to do with the platform.The Wikipedia article you listed is entirely correct...it talks about the Backspace key on PCs and most every other computer. It does not apply to the Macintosh because...the Mac does not have a backspace key! It does have a pair of Delete keys.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delete_key" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delete_key</a>On the Mac, that key is the Delete key. Regardless of what you called the key in that position on your Dell, your dad's PDP-11, your grandfather's Smith Corona typewriter, or your great-grandfather's printing telegraph. On a Mac, it's the Delete key.Really.I'm not making this up, and I'm not trying to pull one over on you.<a href="http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304720" target="_blank">http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304720</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="technologist, post: 614713, member: 4134"] It has everything to do with the platform. The Wikipedia article you listed is entirely correct...it talks about the Backspace key on PCs and most every other computer. It does not apply to the Macintosh because...[i]the Mac does not have a backspace key![/i] It does have a pair of Delete keys. [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delete_key[/url] On the Mac, that key is the Delete key. Regardless of what you called the key in that position on your Dell, your dad's PDP-11, your grandfather's Smith Corona typewriter, or your great-grandfather's printing telegraph. [i]On a Mac, it's the Delete key.[/i] Really. I'm not making this up, and I'm not trying to pull one over on you. [url]http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304720[/url] [/QUOTE]

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