Re: Re: QWK Readers for FreeB
By: Nightfox to Dumas Walker on Tue Sep 01 2020 10:30 pm
> Re: Re: QWK Readers for FreeB
> By: Dumas Walker to NIGHTFOX on Tue Sep 01 2020 02:39 pm
>
> >> One time I worked with someone who brought his own keyboard to work,
> >> because h was used to the Dvorak keyboard layout..
>
> DW> One of my co-workers uses one of those, too, and their background is no
> DW> in IT. It is one of our users. I had always associated Dvorak to older
> DW> programmers but I guess I am wrong as she is not a programmer and is <
>
> The guy I knew who used the Dvorak keyboard was maybe around 25 years old at
> the time.
>
> I had heard the Dvorak keyboard was supposed to be faster to type on, and th
> the QWERTY keyboard was designed to be slower for typing to prevent typewrit
> arms from jamming, but I've since heard that isn't really true.
>
> Nightfox
>
What I have heard is that QWERTY got popular because a typewriter operator won
a writing speed contest with one or something like that, but I have no
verification for such claim.
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