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Aucb.534 fa.editor-p utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!C70:editor-people Thu Feb 25 12:46:52 1982 Re: [GILBERT at MIT-XX (Ed Gilbert): Re: Moran's Comments] >From Neumeister.ES@PARC-MAXC Thu Feb 25 12:44:26 1982 I always thought the QWERTY system was pretty much an emotional layout done by the inventor. I don't know if this story is true, but a lot of the keys wound up where they are perhaps because of the following: The top row of a QWERTY keyboard includes all the letters of the word "Typewriter".

Paul

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