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A comment on The Story Behind the QWERTY Keyboard.

Re:The Story Behind the QWERTY Keyboard by zokier on Sunday May 05, 2013 @03:38PM (#5659477)
I'm not really sure why, if at all, the origins of QWERTY layout matter.
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Re:The Story Behind the QWERTY Keyboard by coldtea on Sunday May 05, 2013 @04:08PM (#5659565)
Because the origin "story" was that Qwerty was designed to make you type slower (to not jam the keys in typewriters) and is thus inherently slower and inferior by design.

(It was indeed made to not jam the keys, but not by making the typist type slower).

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