From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3FE60D40.2090604@hellooperator.net> From: Rasputin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] simple keyboard question References: <394F3AEC-33D8-11D8-BB19-000A95B984D8@mightycheese.com> In-Reply-To: <394F3AEC-33D8-11D8-BB19-000A95B984D8@mightycheese.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 21:14:40 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: ae6c7e46-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Rob Pike wrote: > 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. Speaking as someone with RSI I'd disagree.The layout does seem to minimise movement and overstretching of the fingers. YMMV, of course. -- Rasputin :: Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns