From: "John Cowan" <jcowan@...>
> Dvorak is the name of the inventor (not the same as the composer
> Antonin!).
But a near relative of of Antonin.
(However the keyboard inventor dropped the diacritic from his last name, so
people who talk about [d@vorZ{k] keyboards are hypercorrecting...)
> QWERTY was designed to slow down typing in an era of mechanical type
> bars that jammed easily; Dvorak to speed it up (the commonest English
> letters are on the home row, and the commonest of those under the
> strongest fingers -- though there is a small right-handed bias).
ISTR the actual goal was more ergonomic than (velocitary). Speed may just be a
bonus (plus when you've lived with qwerty all your life, your speed goes down
quite sharply just after the change ;)
*Muke!
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