Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac:16800 comp.editors:179 Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.editors Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Idea for new MacIntosh Editor Message-ID: <1988Jun6.230840.2897@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <5024@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>,Date: Mon, 6 Jun 88 23:08:40 GMT > This was done in the early days of manual typewriters to slow typists > down to a rate that the machine could handle without jamming. Sigh, again this old myth surfaces. It was done to put frequently-used letters far apart, to minimize jamming. This tends to *speed up* typists slightly. > ... See Devorak's work on > keyboard layouts for a detailed discussion on more reasonable > keyboard configurations. All independent attempts to verify Dvorak's claims have been unsuccessful. Improvements on the order of 10% are typical. Useful, but not worth the pain of conversion. -- "For perfect safety... sit on a fence| Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology and watch the birds." --Wilbur Wright| {ihnp4,decvax,uunet!mnetor}!utzoo!henry