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- Newsgroups: comp.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!brunix!doorknob!jgm
- From: jgm@cs.brown.edu (Jonathan Monsarrat)
- Subject: Re: DVORAK keyboard?
- In-Reply-To: rick@ee.uwm.edu's message of 6 Jan 1993 16:20:28 GMT
- Message-ID: <JGM.93Jan6114033@vegas.cs.brown.edu>
- Followup-To: comp.misc
- Sender: news@cs.brown.edu
- Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Brown University
- References: <1if0scINN6k2@uwm.edu>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 16:40:33 GMT
- Lines: 41
-
- Hi Rick!
-
- This is Jonathan Monsarrat writing to you from Brown University.
- Guess what? We have a "local" group called "general" here, and
- whenever someone anywhere else in the world posts to their
- own "general" newsgroup, it leaks over here. Too bad!
-
- I'd ask you to make your post "local only", but obviously you
- intended to make it "world-wide" because you posted to comp.misc.
-
- The layout for the Dvorak-keyboard is:
-
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
- | Esc| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 0 | [ | ] | <- |
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
- | Tab | / | , | . | p | y | f | g | c | r | l | ; | = | |
- ------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
- | Ctrl | a | o | e | u | i | d | h | t | n | s | - | <- |
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
- | Shift | ' | q | j | k | x | b | m | w | v | z | Shift |
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- I'm told by friends that it's worth switching to the Dvorak style.
- BUT -- be ready to loose any and all typing abilities in the process.
- You really have to learn from the ground up to switch.
-
- > How does it handle international characters (umlauts, accents, etc.)?
-
- There are no international characters on the keyboard. It's ASCII.
-
- > What are some advantages or disadvantages of the Dvorak keyboard?
- > In short, why does it even exist?
-
- In the old days mechanical typewriters were a lot slower than
- the typists. If you typed too fast, they'd get stuck. So they
- intentionally designed the keyboard to slow typists down.
-
- The Dvorak keyboard is the "speedy" one, intentionally designed
- for speed with all the keys in the middle.
-
- -Jon
-