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Ahouxn.104 fa.editor-p utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!mhtsa!ihnss!houxi!houxn!govern Tue Feb 23 11:03:37 1982 Re: QWERTY was designed to slow typing down! That is a fairly well known fact, but unnfortunately, there are about 100 million QWERTY's around, and most people who can type at all are unwilling to switch. Real shame. I'm not affected as much, since hunt&peck is slow anyway, but a good keyboard would be nice. Maybe tou could write some EMACS macros to convert, and glue paper labels on your keyboard?

There was a good article in Industrial Engineering (AIIE rag) a few years back about the design of a Hebrew typewriter, which included repositioning the keys for easier finger motions. This reduced fatigue as well as increasing speed ... easier to do in Hebrew with fewer letters, but they have those vowel-dots to deal with too.

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