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From: frechett@spot.Colorado.EDU (-=Runaway Daemon=-)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: HP-95LX Review
Keywords: QWERTY , Sholes keyboard s**ks ; Dvorak , American Simplified rule
Message-ID: <1991May12.200859.12404@colorado.edu>
Date: 12 May 91 20:08:59 GMT
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In article <6747@husc6.harvard.edu> conrad@popvax.uucp (M20400@c.nobili) writes:
P.S.:     ' , . P Y F G C R L / =
>           A O E U I D H T N S -       <---  Read my home row and weep!
>            ; Q J K X B M W V Z
>
>You can do it in software easily.  You can find stuff for both DOS and Mac OS
>on good ftp archives and (presumably) BBSes.  Try it!  You'll like it!  (Oh, I
>guess you should also be able to make a new termcap for UNIX (I always log in
>from a PC or Mac though)....)  (And I think you can do it on VM/CMS with the
>SET INPUT and SET OUTPUT commands, although I never finished investigating this
>method....)
I just thought I would remark on this.. I know that the dvorak keyboard is 
fine and swell.. I would much rather have learned on dvorak just as I 
would much rather have learned metric to begin with.  But be careful where you
throw your remarks.. I have access to over 150 machines on campus here and 
99% of them are UNIX.  None of them have dvorak keyboards, all of them, I need
to be able to type on easily, and emulating dvorak on all UNIX machines is 
not neccessarily possible.  Changing the termcap would not really be a 
viable option either as many of these accounts (namely operator) are shared.

And you wonder why everyone hasnt run out and switched over to dvorak.... .;)
Granted, we make mistakes on the good ol qwerty keyboards but they get the 
job done.  (Trivia note.. the qwerty keyboard was made with the word 
"typewriter" hidden in the top row intentionally ;)

	ian

-=Runaway Daemon=-       (UNIXOPS University of Colorado at Boulder)