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Aha, now I see your point. Yes, you're right -- it would be better to have a "dedicated" key built into the keyboard for alphabet-switching.

I've become aware of that this afternoon while trying...

P.S. The photos of vintage computers reminded me of this classic one-liner:

Наши советские микрокомпьютеры самые большие в мире, и советские часы - самые быстрые!
Our Soviet microcomputers are...

AFAIK, it's not a question of "know-how," really -- it has more to do with (a) labor costs, and (b) "exporting" high-pollution manufacturing processes abroad.

In fact, (b) is especially important,...

Yes, and what a baffling mystery!

Are you totally unaware of the beneficial effects seen under Lenin's "New Economic Policy" -- when private entrepreneurship (on a small scale) was temporarily...

But the advantage of this, it seems to me, is that if you regularly type in MORE than three languages (such as English, Russian, and Hebrew), everything is done by software-switching.

And even if...