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  4. From: duggan@cc.gatech.edu (Rick Duggan)
  5. Subject: Re: DVORAK keyboard?
  6. Message-ID: <1993Jan7.152015.11481@cc.gatech.edu>
  7. Sender: news@cc.gatech.edu
  8. Reply-To: duggan@cc.gatech.edu (Rick Duggan)
  9. Organization: College of Computing
  10. References: <1993Jan06.195807.4211@i88.isc.com> <1993Jan6.222608.20598@oz.plymouth.edu> <1ihgdgINNhpm@uwm.edu>
  11. Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 15:20:15 GMT
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  13.  
  14. In article <1ihgdgINNhpm@uwm.edu> rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller) writes:
  15. >Just think:  Who would consider designing a typewriter to hinder typists?
  16. >        Maybe you had a bad experience in your typing class, but
  17. >        it would have been financial suicide for any company to
  18. >        produce a keyboard which was inherently slower than the
  19. >        many others which were available at the time.
  20.  
  21. Another way to think about this is the following:
  22.  
  23. How long do you think it would take before *someone* learned how
  24. to do 90wpm on a QWERTY keyboard?  Wouldn't the typewriters just
  25. jam again as soon as people got up to speed?  This would probably take at
  26. most a month or so, at which point all those QWERTY keyboards
  27. would again be useless.
  28.  
  29. -rick
  30.  
  31. "Random acts of violence just don't do it for me anymore.  Call it 
  32.  maturity.  Bang!  Bang!  Heh, heh." - Cactus Jack, WCW Saturday Night 07/04/92
  33. Rick Duggan | duggan@cc.gatech.edu | CS4804A-C/CS1501 TA - Section C
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