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Re: Typing versus Handwriting

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From: Gary L. Newell
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 1989 19:27
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In article <8181@boring.cwi.nl>, lambert@cwi.nl (Lambert Meertens) writes:
> If a good handwriting interface were available, I would use it immediately,
> quite possibly exclusively.

Using a handwriting interface for text-entry would be foolish at best. I
don't care whether you are a touch typist or not - it is simply too slow
and requires to much screen space and presents a variety of other problems.
Unless the interface improves upon keyboards (for example, editting of
existing text or manuscripts - clearly a stylus/transp. tablet interface
would be superior - again, chinese text entry is another example) for
a particular application, it would seem too slow to be useful.

> --Lambert Meertens, CWI, Amsterdam; lambert@cwi.nl

By the way, perhaps I misunderstood you - but 10 words a minute??? What? Do 
you type with your toes...???...
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From: gln@arizona.edu (Gary L. Newell)
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Subject: Re: Typing versus Handwriting
Message-ID: <11718@megaron.arizona.edu>
Date: 14 Jun 89 19:27:05 GMT
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Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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