Re: ETAOIN SHRDLU (Was: RIP Jerry Pournelle, the first author to write a

2017-09-12 Thread Chris Elmquist via cctalk
On Monday (09/11/2017 at 08:57PM -0700), Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > On 09/11/2017 08:35 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > > Etaoin Shrdlu was most importantly one of Walt Kelly's characters in Pogo. > > > > ETAOIN SHRDLU ETA name > > On Mon, 11 Sep 2017, Chris Elmquist via cctalk wrote: >

Re: ETAOIN SHRDLU (Was: RIP Jerry Pournelle, the first author to write a

2017-09-12 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Sep 12, 2017, at 4:06 AM, Rob Doyle via cctalk > wrote: > > On 9/11/2017 8:35 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: >> Etaoin Shrdlu was most importantly one of Walt Kelly's characters in Pogo. >> ETAOIN SHRDLU ETA name >> On Mon, 11 Sep 2017, Chris Elmquist via cctalk wrote: >>> I was told t

Re: ETAOIN SHRDLU (Was: RIP Jerry Pournelle, the first author to write a

2017-09-12 Thread Rob Doyle via cctalk
On 9/11/2017 8:35 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: Etaoin Shrdlu was most importantly one of Walt Kelly's characters in Pogo. ETAOIN SHRDLU   ETA name On Mon, 11 Sep 2017, Chris Elmquist via cctalk wrote: I was told that the name came from this string which could be found in printed works and t

Re: ETAOIN SHRDLU (Was: RIP Jerry Pournelle, the first author to write a

2017-09-11 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 09/11/2017 08:35 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > Etaoin Shrdlu was most importantly one of Walt Kelly's characters in Pogo. > > ETAOIN SHRDLU ETA name > On Mon, 11 Sep 2017, Chris Elmquist via cctalk wrote: >> I was told that the name came from this string which could be found in >> printe

Re: ETAOIN SHRDLU (Was: RIP Jerry Pournelle, the first author to write a

2017-09-11 Thread Ethan Dicks via cctalk
On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 11:35 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > (It is sometimes stated that Sholes deliberately chose QWERTY to slow down > typists to the speeds that the early typewriters could handle; that story > has been challenged, but a replacement story of how that layout was chosen > has

ETAOIN SHRDLU (Was: RIP Jerry Pournelle, the first author to write a

2017-09-11 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
Etaoin Shrdlu was most importantly one of Walt Kelly's characters in Pogo. ETAOIN SHRDLU ETA name On Mon, 11 Sep 2017, Chris Elmquist via cctalk wrote: I was told that the name came from this string which could be found in printed works and that people had always seen it but just read past it