Dvorak in NY Times

[Jim Morgan]

Dvorak is also a relative (nephew, I think) of the inventor of the Dvorak
keyboard layout.  The keyboard in test allowed ordinary typists to greatly
exceed their normal speeds, but never managed to replace the
entrenched QWERTY arrangement.  Perhaps the library services he critiqued
are like the QWERTY keyboard; very bad but so entrenched they can't be
replaced.

Jim Morgan
morganj at iupui.edu


On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, Wilfred Drew wrote:

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> Dvorak has had readers of various PC magazines that he knows what he is
> talking about for many years.  People who should know better actually think
> he is an expert.  He just likes to stir things up and then sit back and
> watch what happens.
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> >Remember Dvorrak is the man who for years said that Apple should allow Mac
> >clones and as shortly after they did so said it was a stupid move.
> >
> >Pundits often are strangely clueless. The problem is that some decision
> >makers listen to them.
> >
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