Re: Economists challenge the QWERTY myth

Jim Whitehead (ejw@ICS.uci.edu)
Mon, 21 Sep 1998 18:05:08 -0700

Following up on a thread from February of this year:

http://xent.ics.uci.edu/FoRK-archive/feb98/0437.html

Concerning an article in the Wall Street Journal about how researchers had
tracked down the myth of the Dvorak keyboard, and had discovered that it
was, in fact, not technically superior to the Qwerty keyboard.

Anyway, purely by chance I discovered the original text of the article
online today:

http://wwwpub.utdallas.edu/~liebowit/keys1.html

THE FABLE OF THE KEYS
S. J. LIEBOWITZ and STEPHEN E. MARGOLIS

- Jim