The "qwerty" keyboard that we all know and love (yeah, right <G>) was
designed back in the early days of typewriters, to slow down the typing,
because the keys kept getting stuck. These days, that reason no longer
exists (for obvious reasons <G>) The Dvorak keyboard has nothing to do with
the composer. It was designed (IIRC) by someone else named Dvorak. It is
designed, as I recall, so that the most used keys are on the "home row" to
SPEED-UP typing. IIRC, it was introduced awhile after the typewriter had
been "perfected" and may have been a "data entry" thing, for all I know...
don't recall. :-)
John
----- Original Message -----
From: David Krings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, May 27, 1999 6:15 PM
Subject: Re: dvorak keyboards?
> At 01:32 26.05.99 +0800, you wrote:
> >
> >On 24-May-99 Peter Howell Jr wrote:
> >>>Just for the record, the 'a' key on a qwerty is in the same position as
> >>>the 'a' key in the dvorak.
> >>
> °snip°
>
>
> Hi. i can't give any input to this, i'd rather like an output. What is a
> dvorak keyboard layout ? I only now that Dvorak was a famous composer.
>
>
> Greez
>
> Dave
>
>
>
