Defending the rodent (was Re: Defending the Python lanuage...)
David Bolen
db3l at fitlinxx.com
Fri Feb 1 20:38:58 EST 2002
James_Althoff at i2.com writes:
> Of course, if Douglas Englebart had had his way, this would all be moot.
> Englebart -- who invented the computer mouse -- didn't like moving his hand
> off the keyboard either. So for his famous NLS system he devised a
> one-handed "chording" keypad on which he typed (all characters) using his
> left hand while manipulating the mouse with his right. Decades later he
> still maintained that this is *the* way to do it. :-)
>
> (QWERTY who?)
Drat, and after I spent all those years learning to type really fast
on a keyboard whose layout was designed to slow me down :-)
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