On 2011-10-26, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > (mind you the QWERT keyboard was designed for SLOW writing, since the > old typewriters keys got easily tangled at a fast speed of typing).
Not exactly. From the wikipedia: While it is often said that QWERTY was designed to "slow down" typists, this is incorrect – it was designed to prevent jams[4] while typing at speed, yet some of the layout decisions, such as placing only one vowel on the home row, did have the effect of hobbling more modern keyboards.[5] Günter [4] http://home.earthlink.net/~dcrehr/whyqwert.html [5] http://home.earthlink.net/~dcrehr/whyqwert.html
