Interesting… I’d heard the story of the QWERTY keyboard arrangement before, but I didn’t realize that it was developed in the 1800s.
I fully support experimenting with the keyboard layout. I’d gladly adopt a different keyboard — but only if I could be sure that it would be available on all the systems I need to use. That’s why I never moved to a Dvorak keyboard, even though it’s demonstrably better.
FYI, the link doesn’t work!
Grr… Yahoo apparently deletes AP articles after a single week. I’ve replaced the link with a Google News link to the same article.