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From: prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Dvorak keys vs. QWERT
Message-ID: <1765@hugo.erbe.se>
Date: 8 Sep 90 10:01:12 GMT
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In a recent article hardaker@iris.UCDavis.EDU (Wes Hardaker) writes:

>Does anyone know both keyboards, and do you have a problem getting
>confused?  I doubt anyone just know the Dvorak style since there are so
>few keyboards that support Dvorak.  I think this would be a problem
>switching from one to the other, however, or is the brain intelligent
>enough to seperate the two during their respective use.

I've had some, but not much, problems switching from the one to the other.
But then, I avoid Dvorak if I have a choice. I find that I type about
as fast on a QWERTY keyboard. It should be noted, though, that most of
my typing is in Swedish. The Dvorak layout is optimized solely for the
English language. If someone came up with an equally optimizied
keyboard for Swedish, I might well switch to using it.

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