Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!icdoc!qmc-cs!harlqn!jcgs From: jcgs@wundt.harlqn.uucp (John Sturdy) Newsgroups: comp.periphs Subject: Re: Chord Keyboards (was User Interface Standards -- *Keyboards!*) Message-ID: Date: 31 Jul 89 13:34:12 GMT References: <2808@ndsuvax.UUCP> <1308@netxcom.UUCP> Sender: news@harlqn.UUCP Followup-To: comp.periphs Organization: Harlequin Ltd, Cambridge, England Lines: 22 In-reply-to: ewiles@netxdev.DHL.COM's message of 24 Jul 89 23:34:20 GMT In <1308@netxcom.UUCP>, ewiles@netxdev.UUCP (Edwin Wiles) writes > Thus, a Querty comes in last, a Dvorak comes in second, and a Chord keyboard > comes in first. The only chord keyboard I've used (The MicroWriter, a British system) is said to be about half as "fast" as a non-chord keyboard. (Sounds plausible to me.) Do you know of a chord keyboard that really can be used faster (with the same finger speed) as a non-chord one? I expect the non-chord keyboards to be faster, as you can have key roll-over (that is, one key pressed before the previous one released) - for a chord keyboard, you can't say what character has been typed until all the keys have been released. -- __John When asked to attend a court case, Father Moses took with him a leaking jug of water. Asked about it, he said: "You ask me to judge the faults of another, while mine run out like water behind me." jcgs@uk.co.harlqn (UK notation) jcgs@harlqn.co.uk (most places) ...!mcvax!ukc!harlqn!jcgs (uucp - really has more stages, but ukc knows us) John Sturdy Telephone +44-223-872522 Harlequin Ltd, Barrington Hall, Barrington, Cambridge, UK