Configuring the Keyboard ?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 11:48:25AM -0500, Henry Spencer wrote:
[snip]
> Ugh.  Hint:  you want to put heavily-used letters in the home row!

I second that.  As does every other person that has ever typed I think.

> By the way, tests have shown that even for people with no typing skills --
> this was done back before micros got really common -- alphabetical order
> has no speed advantage over QWERTY.  Most people don't really have that
> good a feel for where a particular letter is in the alphabet.

Oh like the PC Jr. which eventually offered a qwerty keyboard
replacement since well what the point of getting a PC for the kids to
play with if they couldn't at least learn to type while they were at it.

Lennart Sorensen
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