On 06/08/11 16:23, Matthias Melcher wrote:
> [the guy who came up with cr/lf]
>
> Nevertheless, I hope the person responsible [cr/lf guy] is chained in hell to
> the guy
> responsible for the telephone numeric keypad being upside down to the
> numeric pad on keyboard!
Be sure to chain them with the guy who decided backslash was
the character to use for pathname separators, and frontslash
was the way to lead off DOS argument flags instead of dash.
And with them, the guy who designed those cheesy slide-lock
ethernet connectors which were responsible for so many
network outages from cables falling halfway out.
Regarding the upside-down phone pads, its funny how if you
ask people about this in conversation, they never noticed
the key ordering difference.
I didn't notice it myself, until one day in college
I built a touch tone phone out of an old calculator,
and I guess the button arrangement drove my roommate crazy.
I think he, as many of us before autodialers came along,
dialed numbers by muscle memory.
Apparently AT&T did a lot of research on that touch tone
arrangement.. I recall an old AT&T document went into details
which included tests with a rotary arrangement of the buttons.
Certainly adding machines had been around for a while with the
regular calculator arrangement, but AT&T was more concerned
with backwards compatibility with their old rotary dial,
1 at the top, and 0 (operator) at the bottom.
Since folks were used to that after many decades, I imagine
it was muscle memory that caused their research to determine
the current arrangement avoided mis-dialed numbers.
I guess who it bothers depends on how your brain works;
if you dial by the process of 1) remember the number and then
2) "type" that number, or if you use muscle memory to dial..!
I remember I used muscle memory quite a bit apparently, because
when someone would ask for a friend's number I dialed a lot,
I couldn't remember their number, but if I moved to a phone
pad or table top, I could "dial it".
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