On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Eric Ulevik wrote:

> From: Raab, Andreas <Andreas.Raab at disney.com>
> > That's a Windows problem. Windows does not report certain key combinations
> > and I'm not sure if that's a hardware problem or a software problem. It's
> > just that no events are generated.
>
> You can't simultaneously press Alt and Shift. This is a hardware problem;
> the keyboard matrix doesn't allow it. You can, however, press Alt and Ctrl
> or Shift and Ctrl.

On what hardware? My standard PC keyboard happily reports Alt, Ctrl, and
Shift in whatever combination (though the Ctrl+Alt combination is mapped
to MacOption by the Linux VM).

  -Bert-