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From: "Tiit Lankots" <t.lankots@aprote.ee>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: RE: [9fans] simple keyboard question
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 19:10:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <81132473206F3A46A72BD6116E1A06AE479CD4@black.aprote.com> (raw)

> 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.

That Dvorak's idea was flawed, anyone can tell. But qwerty was designed
to _slow the typist down_. 

Tiit


             reply	other threads:[~2003-12-21 17:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-21 17:10 Tiit Lankots [this message]
2003-12-21 17:22 ` Rob Pike
2003-12-22  7:23 ` boyd, rounin
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-12-22  2:40 David Presotto
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
2003-12-21 17:38 Tiit Lankots
2003-12-21 13:46 Hugo Santos
2003-12-21 17:07 ` Rob Pike
2003-12-21 21:14   ` Rasputin
2003-12-22  7:20   ` boyd, rounin
2003-12-21 22:14 ` Hugo Santos
2003-12-22  8:43   ` Fco.J.Ballesteros

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