From: Rob Pike <rob@mightycheese.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] simple keyboard question
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 09:07:57 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <394F3AEC-33D8-11D8-BB19-000A95B984D8@mightycheese.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FE5A442.3060202@innerghost.net>
funny thing about dvorak keyboards. they're based on bad science.
mr dvorak knew what we wanted and fudged his data until he got it,
but it was all bogus. on the other had, the qwerty keyboard actually
was tested quite a bit in the early days and came out on top.
dvoraks are no more efficient for typists than qwerty keyboards.
the only good argument i've heard for using them is that, during the
transition period, you tend to be a very slow typist and this may
alleviate RSI.
-rob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-21 17:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-21 13:46 Hugo Santos
2003-12-21 17:07 ` Rob Pike [this message]
2003-12-21 21:00 ` [9fans] dvorak Michael Baldwin
2003-12-22 9:48 ` a
2003-12-22 14:21 ` Brantley Coile
2003-12-22 23:43 ` Adrian Tritschler
2003-12-23 6:38 ` boyd, rounin
2003-12-23 15:15 ` jpc
2003-12-23 16:28 ` Rob Pike
2003-12-23 20:07 ` Joel Salomon
2003-12-23 20:40 ` Richard Miller
2003-12-23 23:53 ` Steve Kilbane
2003-12-21 21:14 ` [9fans] simple keyboard question Rasputin
2003-12-22 7:20 ` boyd, rounin
2003-12-21 22:14 ` Hugo Santos
2003-12-22 8:43 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2003-12-21 17:10 Tiit Lankots
2003-12-21 17:22 ` Rob Pike
2003-12-22 7:23 ` boyd, rounin
2003-12-21 17:38 Tiit Lankots
2003-12-21 17:42 Tiit Lankots
2003-12-21 21:09 ` Dan Cross
2003-12-22 7:31 ` boyd, rounin
2003-12-22 1:46 ` Charles Forsyth
2003-12-22 7:25 ` boyd, rounin
2003-12-22 2:40 David Presotto
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