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Article #28716Re: Idea for new MacIntosh Editor
From: Henry Spencer
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 1988 23:08
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 1988 23:08
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> This was done in the early days of manual typewriters to slow typists
> down to a rate that the machine could handle without jamming.
Sigh, again this old myth surfaces. It was done to put frequently-used
letters far apart, to minimize jamming. This tends to *speed up* typists
slightly.
> ... See Devorak's work on
> keyboard layouts for a detailed discussion on more reasonable
> keyboard configurations.
All independent attempts to verify Dvorak's claims have been unsuccessful.
Improvements on the order of 10% are typical. Useful, but not worth the
pain of conversion.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.editors Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Idea for new MacIntosh Editor Message-ID: <1988Jun6.230840.2897@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <5024@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>, <Jun.5.02.10.06.1988.3586@constance.rutgers.edu> Date: Mon, 6 Jun 88 23:08:40 GMT