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Dvorak: Dvorak Layouts
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Piers Anthony, author of the Xanth novels, often wrote in the 1980s author's notes in the books about how his Dvorak use prevented him from converting to a word processor. He uses a further modified Dvorak layout (swapping the hyphen and apostrophe keys), which made it even more difficult.
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: Many people switch to Dvorak because it's more comfortable. The Dvorak layout was carefully adapted to fit the English language. QWERTY, on the other hand, is about as efficient as a random layout. Because it makes typing easier and more natural,
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Failure to achieve the general population's awareness that the Dvorak layout existed. This improved somewhat following the Guinness Book of Records' 1985 publication of Barbara Blackburn’s achievement of 212 wpm using a Dvorak keyboard, and again in the mid-1990s when computer operating systems began to incorporate the Dvorak layout as an option.
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