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From: bcohen@cs.buffalo.edu (Bram Cohen)
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Subject: Talk: Dvorak-QWERTY
Date: 5 Oct 1994 13:53:28 -0500
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An interesting thing about the QWERTY layout is that consecutive letters are 
placed pretty close together. If you look at the position of each letter 
starting a, b, c, and so on, they're all pretty close together, in fact many
pairs are right next to each other (specifically, cde,fgh,ijkl,mn,op.) 
Apparently not much thought was put into that layout at all, but since it 
was supposed to be bad, that doesn't make much difference.