-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > after all the qwerty keyboard layout was designed to slow typing so that > the mechanical typewriters could keep up. there are better layouts for > typing (even some standardized ones like doevak) but the OLPC ships with > the qwerty layout in the US becouse that is the standard.
Weirdly enough, I think that qwerty is actually an advantage for this keyboard. Qwerty was designed to avoid having consecutive letters be close to each other along the left-right axis. This was done so that the corresponding typewriter hammers would not interfere. In the case of the OLPC keyboard, the key pitch is slightly narrower than the natural spacing between adult fingers, which means that typing two consecutive letters with two neighboring fingers is difficult. Qwerty tries to minimize exactly this case. Dvorak, which attempts to place digraphs next to each other, might be slower on this size keyboard. Three cheers for qwerty! - --Ben -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHm60eUJT6e6HFtqQRAhqqAJ9VWA33Vi5dmzmlLALMd3KUWq9ragCeLN61 ZKokYomn6CPuxM4HyJ0qWV0= =ON+A -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
