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QWERTY keyboards (was: Re: URL characters)
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lugnet.publish
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Sat, 4 Mar 2000 09:52:16 GMT
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Bram Lambrecht <braml@juno.com> writes:
> [...] where as QWERTY was designed to slow people down so their
> typewriters wouldn't jam...
I don't think the original purpose of QWERTY was to _slow_ people
down. Many mechanical typewriters can operate at hair raising speeds.
What causes the typewriter "hammers" to jam is usually two subsequent
letters from the same area of keyboard being pressed rapidly after
each other. So the purpose of the QWERTY keyboard was, if I'm not
mistaken, to make sure that two subsequent keys normally appear in
different regions of the keyboard.
Fredrik
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| (...) What about just using a Dvorak keyboard? I've never seem one, but it is designed to lessen finger movements across the keyboard, where as QWERTY was designed to slow people down so their typewriters wouldn't jam... --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish)
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