OpenEuphoria

Re: [OT] How far have we come?

• Posted by Humberto <codehead78 at YAHOO.COM> May 08, 2001
• 627 views

I remember this from a Software Engineering course,
some of the best interface design was years before the
PC, and unfortunately most of those good ideas have
been lost.

-Humberto 
--- David Cuny <dcuny at LANSET.COM> wrote:
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> Gerardo wrote:
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> > One mouse with two or three keys is a lousy semi-
> > replacement for 100+ keys with literally thousands
> > of possible combinations.
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> Time and motion studies have found that, for most
> people, it's actually
> faster to use the mouse than it is to use the
> keyboard. To people like you
> and I who claim the keyboard is actually faster,
> these they reply (I'm not
> making this up!) that there's some sort of 'lost
> time' amnesia effect where
> we literally don't remember the time it takes us to
> perform these actions,
> making them only *appear* to be faster.
> 
> (...insert twilight zone theme here...)
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> -- David Cuny
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