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Why don’t we have a key board which has all the letters in a alphabetical order?
I understand that the QWERTY keyboard is the legacy of the Typewriter world. The history as i understand this in the Typewriter world was to keep the often used letters far away from each other so that “jamming up” of the key strikers does not happen.
With the advent of Computers and the modern typewriters why are we still stuck with them. It would be easier for young people to get started with computers if the letters are in alphabetic order.
QWERTY keyboard has served its purpose and i think it is time to retire it and make the keyboard easier for new comers with the alphabetic keyboard.
Appreciate comments and inputs,
Shruthi
I believe that one reason this will not happen any time soon is that it would be a very hard transition. Its basically like learning a new language. You might want to say “Hello” but instead you type “Pcssi” instead with an “ABCDEF” keyboard. It might make more sense, but until you can change your keyboard layout without changing your entire keyboard, I doubt this will ever happen.
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