On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 07:54:11PM -0500, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote:

> Eventually, at the stroke of midnight on 31 December A.D. 1999, M$ Word
> 5.0 for DO$ began writing garbage to the data files.  This is one of the
> very few genuine "Y2K" bugs.  M$ had no patch, but offered instead a free
> copy of Word 5.5.  But who in his right mind would migrate to 5.5?  Word
> 5.0 was the last version of Word for DO$ which could be used without aid
> of the rodent, and a rodent is anathema to efficiency.

This is not supported by evidence, e.g.
<http://facweb.cs.depaul.edu/sjost/csc423/examples/anova/efficiency.pdf>

Jacob Nielsen has argued that people _feel_ more efficient using just the
keyboard, but objective measurements don't agree.
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