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- From: vanderby@mprgate.mpr.ca (David Vanderbyl)
- Subject: Re: DVORAK keyboard?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.192059.21262@mprgate.mpr.ca>
- Sender: news@mprgate.mpr.ca
- Reply-To: vanderby@mprgate.mpr.ca (David Vanderbyl)
- Organization: MPR Teltech Ltd.
- References: <1993Jan8.011726.1250@cs.cornell.edu> <1ij4h2INNocb@uwm.edu>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 19:20:59 GMT
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- jgd@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (John G Dobnick) writes:
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- >Was "slow down the typist" the reason for QWERTY? I don't know. Was
- >"avoid mechanical jams" the reason? Probably. Are the two unrelated?
- >The Devil's Advocate in me says "No!" In fact, I'll state that
- >QWERTY _was_ developed to _quote_ "slow down the typist" _unquote_.
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- bzzzzt. Wrongo.
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- [long, meaningless argument deleted]
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- >Point? There's more than one way to look at this. Just because
- >someone _says_ they are not arranging they typewriter keys to "slow
- >down" the typist, doesn't necessarily _mean_ that aren't doing that.
- >Would you _admit_ that if you were selling a product?
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- You are completely missing the point here. No one is arguing that
- QWERTY is not inherently slower than DVORAK. The fact is, QWERTY
- was designed to prevent jams. Period. That it is slower on today's
- electronic keyboards is just an unfortunate side effect.
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- You argument is similar to this:
- Cars are designed to go fast. Going fast in a car often kills people.
- Therefore, cars were designed to kill people.
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