@WideSpacer This is a good post: http://widespacer.blogspot.com/2015/11/the-hidden-secrets-of-qwerty.html …
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Replying to @mwichary @WideSpacer
BTW have you found any info of the reasons ETAOIN keyboard is set up this way on a Linotype? I started digging recently.
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The hell of not taking good notes — I read something THIS WEEK on that very subject, and now I can't find it.
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Letter frequency obviously. But perhaps also the Linotype equivalent of typebar collisions: matrices race conditions.
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Yeah, the “what” seems obvious, but the “why” is puzzling.
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Haven’t seen a race condition explanation that made sense to me. (Maybe it reflects on me.)
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One book claimed it’s a leftover from band Linotype tech constraints.
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Will be happy to share my findings/sources if that's interesting to you.
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