diamond@tkou02.enet.dec.com (diamond@tkovoa) (09/03/90)
In article <1990Sep1.082020.3529@nmt.edu> john@nmt.edu (John Shipman) writes: >``The Dvorak Simplified Keyboard: Forty Years of Frustration,'' by >Robert Parkinson, from the November 1972 issue of a magazine called >_Computers_and_Automation_. >here's a relevant quote from the end of the article: > ...Dr. Frank Gilbreth (under whose direction Dr. Dvorak began > the research that led to developing the DSK), the father of > time and motion study, said, ``It is cheaper and more > productive to design machines to fit men rather than try and > force men to fit machines.'' Like wow, man. Do you suppose we'll ever apply such logic to the design of programming languages? Operating systems? (and inews?) -- Norman Diamond, Nihon DEC diamond@tkou02.enet.dec.com We steer like a sports car: I use opinions; the company uses the rack.