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For some keys, due to frustrating historical practice, there is simply going to be incompatibility with the Linux console. Why?

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For some keys, due to frustrating historical practice, there is simply going to be incompatibility with the Linux console. Why?

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xterm was initially written to emulate a DEC VT100 terminal. PC keyboards have many more keys than a VT100. The PC keyboard resembles a VT220 keyboard much more closely. That’s why Linus Torvalds based the kernel console driver on VT220 emulation.