@Felthry It's got a few historical functions, but nowadays, mostly nothing.

@terrana Every keyboard still seems to have it, while they don't generally have the infinitely more useful compose or altgr keys. I guess that's some kind of standardization thing?
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@Felthry Pretty much. Scroll lock is part of the IBM PC keyboard standard that most modern keyboards still use. AltGr and compose are not.

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@terrana Makes sense. The computer industry is very full of poorly-designed ad-hoc standards.
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