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For now, some notes about the development of a "meta key" concept. Roughly in chronological order.
- "Meta Hand" on the TX-2 keyboards.
- META on the LINC keyboard.
- EDIT on the IMSSS custom Datamedia keyboard for use with TVEdit.
- META modifier on the SAIL keyboard.
- META modifier on the Knight keyboard. Also TOP.
- META modifier on the Kulp "space-cadet" keyboard. Also TOP, GREEK, SUPER, HYPER.
- Stanford SUN workstation proposal from 1980 mentions a META key.
- Sun-2 keyboard has modifiers LEFT and RIGHT. Subsequent Sun keyboards have the diamond symbol.
- The X Window System protocol has a Meta modifier.