On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Tim Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > Dennis Lee Bieber <[email protected]> wrote: >> Oh, there was an "inefficiency" in QWERTY -- but it only applies to >>fully manual typewriters, in which some of the more common letters were >>placed under the weakest fingers -- to slow down key strokes enough to >>reduce jamming multiple type blocks > > That's what I was referring to. That's a very common belief, but it's > nonsense.
Competing rumour: The layout was designed such that "typewriter" could be typed out using only the top row, to improve demo speed by a factor of three. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
