Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/28/84 based on 9/17/84; site copper.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!teklds!azure!copper!leet From: leet@copper.UUCP (Lee Thomas) Newsgroups: net.database Subject: Re: a word to the wise Message-ID: <74@copper.UUCP> Date: Wed, 21-Aug-85 13:01:43 EDT Article-I.D.: copper.74 Posted: Wed Aug 21 13:01:43 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 17:43:31 EDT References: <578@bu-cs.UUCP> Reply-To: leet@copper.UUCP (Lee Thomas) Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR Lines: 29 Summary: In article <578@bu-cs.UUCP> sciore@bu-cs.UUCP (E Sciore) writes: >Has anybody ever noticed that all the letters of the word "database" are >typed with the left hand? Now the layout of the typewriter keyboard was >designed to facilitate the even use of both hands. It follows, >therefore, that writing about databases is not only unnatural, >but a lot harder than it appears. > Edward Sciore > Computer Science, BU On my Dvorak-layout keyboard, the word "database" alternates evenly between both hands (all vowels are typed with the left hand). The "standard" keyboard layout (a.k.a. the "qwerty" layout) was actually designed to slow down typists on turn-of-the-century typewriters, because the keys would jam if you typed too fast. "Even use of both hands" had little, if anything, to do with it (that WAS a consideration in the Dvorak design). NOW TO REDEEM MYSELF for posting this article, by appending something to do with databases :-) : Has anyone out there investigated the relationship between databases and the "knowledge bases" of artificial intelligence? That's a research interest of mine. Reply by mail if possible, and I'll summarize if absolutely necessary. -- Lee Thomas Software Development Products Division Design Automation Group Tektronix, Inc.