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From: diamond@tkou02.enet.dec.com (diamond@tkovoa)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: efficiency (was Re: Dvorak keyboard---advantages)
Message-ID: <1943@tkou02.enet.dec.com>
Date: 3 Sep 90 06:13:38 GMT
References: <1990Sep1.082020.3529@nmt.edu>
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In article <1990Sep1.082020.3529@nmt.edu> john@nmt.edu (John Shipman) writes:

>``The Dvorak Simplified Keyboard: Forty Years of Frustration,'' by
>Robert Parkinson, from the November 1972 issue of a magazine called
>_Computers_and_Automation_. 
>here's a relevant quote from the end of the article:
>  ...Dr. Frank Gilbreth (under whose direction Dr. Dvorak began
>  the research that led to developing the DSK), the father of
>  time and motion study, said, ``It is cheaper and more
>  productive to design machines to fit men rather than try and
>  force men to fit machines.''

Like wow, man.  Do you suppose we'll ever apply such logic to the design
of programming languages?  Operating systems?





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Norman Diamond, Nihon DEC       diamond@tkou02.enet.dec.com
We steer like a sports car:  I use opinions; the company uses the rack.