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Re: Did you know ?
Does anyone know why we use the "QWERTY" layout for keyboards, and not the more logical alphabetical layout?
Well, apparently the first generation of typewriters had an alphabetical layout. However the mechanism inside the typewriter could not keep up with the typist and jammed repeatedly. The Qwerty layout was designed to slow typists to the point where the mechanism could cope without jamming.
Computer keyboards could cope with the speed of human typists easily, but keep the same layout purely because it is now standard.
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