• Rhaedas@fedia.io
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    3 days ago

    Why didn’t they just make one Clear and make another Backspace? The concept of erasing the last character had been in typewriters for a while by then, and this is far more obvious. Maybe erasing a single digit in earlier software/hardware was much harder than just clearing it all?

    • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      Some do that, too. Unfortunately the weight of tradition seems to enforce the C/CE/AC key preference.

      Even the iphone built in OS calculator has the “AC” button unless you manually tap the entry window, then you get a backspace.