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From: kodiak@amiga.UUCP (Robert R. Burns)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Dvorak Keyboard Layout
Message-ID: <4208@amiga.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jul 89 16:56:06 GMT
References: <Jul.15.19.50.08.1989.17361@topaz.rutgers.edu> <3771@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM> <66814@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>
Reply-To: kodiak@tooter.UUCP (Robert R. Burns)
Organization: Commodore-Amiga Inc, Los Gatos CA
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In article <66814@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> Horne-Scott@cs.yale.edu (Scott Horne) writes:
)In article <3771@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM>, weaver@spdcc (Read Weaver) writes:
)> In article <Jul.15.19.50.08.1989.17361@topaz.rutgers.edu> shoopak@topaz.rutgers.edu (Maverick) writes:
)> >Does anybody know the layout for the "Dovarac (sp?)" keyboard?
)> The layout:  (wish me luck).
)> 
)> /  ,  .  P  Y  F  G  C  R  L
)>  A  O  E  U  I  D  H  T  N  S  ;
)>   '  Q  J  K  X  B  M  W  V  Z
)> 
)> The shifted characters are  /-?  '-"  ;-:
)> The top row stays the same
)  ??????????????????????????
)> The extra keys on computer keyboards stay the same (or change if you want)
)
)Does it really?  I'm pretty sure that it looks something like
)
)	9 7 5 3 1 2 4 6 8 0

The Amiga implementation of the applicable ANSI standard for *alternate*
layout of keys on a keyboard (i.e. "dvorak", not "querty") is...

*   `~  1!  2@  3#  4$  5%  6^  7&  8*  9( 0)  \|  =+  }{   7   8   9
*         '"  ,<  .>  pP  yY  fF  gG  cC  rR  lL  /?  ][    4   5   6
*          aA  oO  eE  uU  iI  dD  hH  tT  nN  sS  -_       1   2   3
*            ;:  qQ  jJ  kK  xX  bB  mM  wW  vV  zZ         0       .
*
*---------------------------------------------------------------------
*
*   for reference, here's USA
*
*   `~  1!  2@  3#  4$  5%  6^  7&  8*  9( 0)  -_  =+  \|   7   8   9
*         qQ  wW  eE  rR  tT  yY  uU  iI  oO  pP  [{  ]}    4   5   6
*          aA  sS  dD  fF  gG  hH  jJ  kK  lL  ;:  '"       1   2   3
*            zZ  xX  cC  vV  bB  nN  mM  ,<  .>  /?         0       .

^lifted from the MC68000 assembler source comments :-)

I suspect the differences are due to the fact that the standards only
address a subset of the key positions: it's been 5 years so I don't
guarantee the details.

- Kodiak
-- 
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