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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!enterpoop.mit.edu!eru.mt.luth.se!lunic!sunic!dkuug!diku!elgaard
  2. From: elgaard@diku.dk (Niels Elgaard Larsen)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.misc
  4. Subject: Re: DVORAK keyboard?
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan9.134843.11027@odin.diku.dk>
  6. Date: 9 Jan 93 13:48:43 GMT
  7. References: <1if0scINN6k2@uwm.edu> <1if7duINN2ho@gallium.cs.unc.edu> <1993Jan7.003908.16204@itsmail1.hamilton.edu> <1993Jan7.012426.26902@oz.plymouth.edu>
  8. Sender: elgaard@trud.diku.dk
  9. Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen
  10. Lines: 18
  11.  
  12. sos@oz.plymouth.edu (Steffan O'Sullivan) writes:
  13.  
  14. >nrabinow@itsmail1.hamilton.edu (Nancy Rabinowitz) writes:
  15. >>So, if you can't touch-type then you shouldn't think about getting a
  16. >>Dvorak?  Isn't the physical keyboard different?
  17.  
  18. >I've never seen a physical Dvorak keyboard, though I've heard they
  19. >exist.  If you had one, of course, you wouldn't need to learn to touch
  20. >type.  But you should anyway, if you do any significant amount of
  21. >computing ...  in fact, not knowing how to touch type before learning
  22. >Dvorak is actually a plus, in my opinion: less to unlearn.
  23.  
  24. Couldn't you just rearrage the keys?
  25. -- 
  26.          Niels Elgaard Larsen
  27.          Institute of Computer Science,
  28.          University of Copenhagen, Denmark
  29.          E-mail: elgaard@diku.dk
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