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Subject: Re: Request for human interface design anecdotes
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Date: Fri, 30-Oct-87 08:34:47 EST
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Posted: Fri Oct 30 08:34:47 1987
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Organization: The little blue rock next to that twinkly star.
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Keywords: human factors, interfaces

In article <3389@uw-june.UUCP> pattis@uw-june.UUCP (Richard Pattis) writes:  
>In 1982 I was using the UCSD P-system editor. [when leaving...] W means
>write [the file] out; E means exit without saving - these keys are adjacent. 

  Compare this with the more modern "rn" program, which uses "a" for
abort and "s" for send... trivially mistypable.


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