Subj : Re: QWK Readers for FreeB
To   : Nightfox
From : Arelor
Date : Wed Sep 02 2020 04:08 pm

  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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