It wasn't keyboard memorization, so much as proximity of frequently used 
letters when a typewriter still had the "arm bars" to hit the ribbon - the bars 
would stick.   
-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Link <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:03:07 
To: NT System Admin Issues<[email protected]>
Reply-To: "NT System Admin Issues" 
<[email protected]>Subject: Re: Perhaps the BEST hotfix 
ever that you may need to install

And weren't QWERTY keyboards originally designed to slow typists down a
bit?  IIRC, fast typists could easily enough memorize the key layout and
then proceed to type so fast that the keys would jam...

Sometimes inefficiency is a good thing.

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:50 AM, David Lum <[email protected]> wrote:

> The amount of *time* to execute a command and the amt of *movement* to
> execute a command are not always proportional or even related.
>
> Type out each the lines of A and B below, which takes longer for you to
> duplicate on say, notepad? Which one takes less time? Which takes less
> physical movement?
>
> A. This sentence which is forty-nine characters long
> B. yjif awbrwbxw qguxg ua di
>
> Which is 25 characters long. Takes more calories to run your eyes along and
> type the longer sentence, takes more brainpower and time to process the 2nd
> line.
>
> Of course "optimized code" would be C: "This sentence which is fo", which
> is short like B. AND fast to process like A. To reach C simply takes
> training, but I digress...
>
> Dave
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rick Schmahl [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 8:27 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Perhaps the BEST hotfix ever that you may need to install
>
> e x i t  enter = 5 keystrokes
>
> alt-spacebar c =3 and hands don't have to reach up to the function keys
>  :-)
>
>
>
> Quoting "Michael B. Smith" <[email protected]>:
>
> > Hmmm. We'd need to study the total therbligs involved.
> >
> > There is a cost involved in moving the hands away from the home
> > position. I actually have to move my arm to get my hand in a
> > position to hit F4.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Michael B. Smith
> > Consultant and Exchange MVP
> > http://TheEssentialExchange.com <http://theessentialexchange.com/>
> >
> > From: Jonathan Link [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 10:36 AM
> > To: NT System Admin Issues
> > Subject: Re: Perhaps the BEST hotfix ever that you may need to install
> >
> > It does bug me though that I can't Alt-F4 out of it, since I could
> > save three keystrokes that way...
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Michael B. Smith
> > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> > Exactly.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Michael B. Smith
> > Consultant and Exchange MVP
> > http://TheEssentialExchange.com <http://theessentialexchange.com/><
> http://theessentialexchange.com/>
> >
> > From: Miller Bonnie L.
> > [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]
> >]
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 9:51 AM
> >
> > To: NT System Admin Issues
> > Subject: RE: Perhaps the BEST hotfix ever that you may need to install
> >
> > LOL-I can type that faster than I can move the mouse to the X.
> >
> > I still find myself double-right clicking the top left corner of a
> > window to close it at times.
> >
> > 8)
> >
> > From: David Lum [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>]
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 6:47 AM
> >
> > To: NT System Admin Issues
> > Subject: RE: Perhaps the BEST hotfix ever that you may need to install
> >
> > Along these lines.....you know you're a geek that even when using
> > Win7 / 2K8 you still type "exit" to close a DOS box (err, command
> > window) because clicking the "X" just feels wrong after all these
> > years...even in PowerShell.
> >
> > Just did it again minutes ago, old habits die hard.
> >
> > From: Leedy, Andy
> > [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>]
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 6:30 AM
> > To: NT System Admin Issues
> > Subject: RE: Perhaps the BEST hotfix ever that you may need to install
> >
> > Michael - Was it a KIM-1?
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIM-1
> > That was my 1st computer. Shortly after that, I upgraded to the SYM-1
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SYM-1
> > -Andy
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 6:32 PM, Michael B. Smith
> > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >
> > The first computer I built - in 1978 - had 4 KB of RAM and a 40
> > character hexadecimal display with a hex input keypad. It cost me
> > all my money (I was in high-school working part time) for a couple
> > of months.
> >
> >
> >
> > But it put me on the path I still follow today! :)
> >
> >
> >
> > But yes - you are old.
> >
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> >
> >
> > Michael B. Smith
> >
> > Consultant and Exchange MVP
> >
> > http://TheEssentialExchange.com <http://theessentialexchange.com/><
> http://theessentialexchange.com/>
> >
> >
> >
> > From: Jeff Steward [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]
> >]
> > Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 9:23 PM
> > To: NT System Admin Issues
> > Subject: Re: Perhaps the BEST hotfix ever that you may need to install
> >
> >
> >
> > Holy smokes!  1TB of RAM....when I started programming we had a
> > whopping 32k to use.  It is not that I'm old, it is that technology
> > is moving so fast...right?
> >
> >
> >
> > -Jeff Steward
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 9:16 PM, Jonathan
> > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> > Sweeeet!
> >
> > On Jan 14, 2011 9:15 PM, "Michael B. Smith"
> > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/980598
> >>
> >> Windows Server 2008 R2 cannot be installed or started on a computer
> >>  that has 1 TB or more of RAM
> >>
> >> HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Michael B. Smith
> >> Consultant and Exchange MVP
> >> http://TheEssentialExchange.com <http://theessentialexchange.com/><
> http://theessentialexchange.com/>
> >>
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