On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 11:30, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > Competing rumour: The layout was designed such that "typewriter" could > be typed out using only the top row, to improve demo speed by a factor > of three. >
Utter nonsense. The QWERTY keyboard was - and this is verified fact - designed the way is was because the inventor's mother in law's initials were AS and his father is law was DF. The letter combinations JK and L; were his childrens' initials. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
