Umm, but the keyboard being used in Europe (whether or not it is an ISO standard) was created in the US for US computers. It's on Wikipedia in the link Tom posted and it's in the vast document Glenn linked, multiple times.

What we have here are simply multiple iterations that at some point maintained divergent paths. Because IBM and others weren't above ping-ponging back and forth between the various designs over the course of the early years.
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