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From: bin@primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: New Mac Keyboard
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Date: 24 Oct 90 22:27:58 GMT
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From article <1590@camex.COM>, by kent@circus.camex.com (Kent Borg):
> Simple.  There are (at least) two ways to arrange a keyboard.  For a
> programmer or for a typist.  
> 
> Question: If you are selling Macintoshes and want them to be
> approachable, easy to use machines, which group do you cater to?
> Typists, of course.  (Nothing in the Mac is done for programmers'
> convienience, why should the keyboard???)

This does not make sense, given the evidence of the keyboard itself.

If Macintosh keyboards were designed for typists, the clover key
would be placed somewhere other than where it breaks your wrist to
type it.
--
Paul DuBois
dubois@primate.wisc.edu

                 "Was all of this because I wore a big man's hat?"