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This may seem totally trivial, but I'm very annoyed at the seemingly
stupid practice that has been followed on most IBM personal computers.
Namely, the practice of putting the <ALT> keys on either side of the
<SPACE> bar, and the <SHIFT>s fringing the last alphabetic row of the
keyboard.

Maybe it's just force of habit, but it seems much more logical to be
able to hit the <SHIFT> keys with your thumb when typing uppercase
letters, and to hit the less frequently used <ALT> keys with the last
finger of the active typing hand. (Try it.)

If _I_ had my personal choice, I would swap the keys and use them as
I just mentioned. I suppose, also, that practice at IBM keyboards
makes this inconvenience almost transparent to the typing "pro".

At any rate, I would like to get some response, positive and negative,
to my little proposal.

							- Gene



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