Re: Dvorak keymapping for NeXT (type at twice the speed!)

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From: Volker Herminghaus-Shirai
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 13:24

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In article <1992Jul26.153220.24720@metropolis.com> robert@metropolis.com  
(Robert Munyer) writes:
> I would guess that the Dvorak keyboard would work well for German, because
> of similarities between German and English.  Perhaps the best idea would be
> for you to run some tests and find out for yourself.  Try this:
> 
> Try this on some German text, and let us know how it turns out ...

OK, I did. Here's the statistics

$ wc text
      53    1463    9278 text
$ homerow text sholes
hal 1
1
$ homerow text
[lotsa stuff deleted]
268

That's more than 18% of the words.
Pretty good. I think I'll go for it.

--
Volker Herminghaus-Shirai (vhs@darkcube.radig.de)

If I had intel inside(tm), I'd throw up...

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