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On 2018-03-19, Dave Garland <dave.g...@wizinfo.com> wrote:

> On 3/19/2018 10:09 AM, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>
>> WordStar on the other hand was designed for touch typists. But they
>> undid that when they designed new versions with different keys (wordstar
>> 2000?)
>
> I personally thought WordStar 4 was the acme of perfection for PCs, 
> though the Displaywriter was better. WordPerfect was very popular with 
> business in the US, in part due to their exceptionally good telephone 
> support and aftermarket add-ons for the medical and legal professions. 
> The F-key orientaton slowed me down, but I never used it for 
> production typing. In the Windows era all of them deteriorated, and 
> required taking your hand off the keyboard to (which slows touch 
> typists down a lot, and occasionally resulted in entire paragraphs of 
> gibberish due to their hand ending up one key off of where it should 
> be) to use the mouse. I think that the people who marketed and wrote 
> software were hunt-and-peck typists, and probably correctly assumed 
> that the people who purchased the software were as well. The people 
> who had to use it, not so much, back then.

Most software these days seems designed to force your hands back and
forth between keyboard and mouse.  This is a pity for us touch typists,
for whom a mouse click takes about the same time as 10 keystrokes.

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