Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!ucbvax!UTCVM.BITNET!MQUINN From: MQUINN@UTCVM.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Anybody remember the DVORAK keyboard layout? Message-ID: <9106200820.AA02046@apple.com> Date: 19 Jun 91 21:26:49 GMT References: Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 22 On Wed, 19 Jun 1991 10:42:49 GMT Lyle Gray said: > >Hmmm, this could be interesting. I type at 90wpm on a QUERTY keyboard. I >wonder how fast I could go on a Dvorak layout? (And what it would do to my >regular typing...) I started to learn how to type on a DVORAK and since I had already learned on a QWERTY keyboard, I kept making mistakes by typing QWERTY keys instead of DVORAK keys. When I'd go to a QWERTY keyboard, I made the opposite mistake. I would suggest sticking with one or the other. DVORAK is faster, but QWERTY is everywhere. If you learn DVORAK then go use a QWERTY, you'll probably go reeaalll sssllloooowwwww and make many mistakes. You have to decide whether or not it's worth the extra speed advantage. >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Lyle H. Gray Internet (personal): gray@cs.umass.edu >Quodata Corporation Phone: (203) 728-6777, FAX: (203) 247-0249 >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- BITNET-- mquinn@utcvm <------------send files here pro-line-- mquinn@pro-gsplus.cts.com