Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!auspex!hitz From: hitz@auspex.auspex.com (Dave Hitz) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Dvorak keyboard Message-ID: <4360@auspex.auspex.com> Date: 13 Nov 90 21:51:07 GMT References: <90316.120552ESR@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU> Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara Lines: 23 In article <90316.120552ESR@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU> ESR@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU (Ed Russell) writes: >I have a Northgate 102. One of the switch settings is to configure it as >a Dvorak keyboard. Key caps are available for a nominal fee. I assume >the other Northgate models have the same capability(?). The print articles I remember seeing about the Dvorak keyboard have included pictures showing a keyboard that not only has different letters on different keys than qwertyiop, but actually has keys arranged so that they fit differently under the fingers. (I believe that there were more keys around the thumbs, so that those dextrous members could do something besides type SPACE.) But in netnews articles I always see people saying things like, "I turned my keyboard to Dvorak by hacking the tty driver in the kernel to ..." Is my memory wrong about the Dvorak keyboard, or have some clever people actually figured out how to make the kernel tty driver (or in this case a switch setting) move the plastic keys around on the keyboard? -- Dave Hitz work: 408-492-0900 UUCP: {uunet,mips,sun,bridge2}!auspex!hitz home: 408-739-7116