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- From: jgd@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (John G Dobnick)
- Newsgroups: comp.misc,general
- Subject: Re: DVORAK keyboard?
- Date: 9 Jan 1993 01:29:58 GMT
- Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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- References: <1993Jan8.192059.21262@mprgate.mpr.ca>
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- From article <1993Jan8.192059.21262@mprgate.mpr.ca>, by vanderby@mprgate.mpr.ca (David Vanderbyl):
- >
- > 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.
-
- Have I missed something here? I thought we were discussing
- MECHANICAL typewriters, not modern electrically driven, or
- electronically simulated, devices. There has certainly
- been sufficient HISTORY discussed -- PRE-electrical era history
- at that.
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