-=> Quoting Roy J. Tellason to Bob Breed <=-

 BB> I think the main cause is that you never move you hands off the
 BB> keyboard,  it's just hammer away hour after hour for those doing
 BB> data entry stuff. 

 RJT> I think you're absolutely on to something here,  and that this is one
 RJT> of the reasons why the original (from CP/M!) WordStar command keys
 RJT> made so much sense,  and were so widely copied -- they don't require
 RJT> you to take your hands off the keyboard,  as contrasted with programs
 RJT> that heavily use the function keys... 

There was a program distributed by the Wordstar folks that demonstrated
this. It was sent around about the time of WS 6.

Also, don't forget that back in the CP/M days, even *arrow* keys were a
rarity on the terminals used. Function keys were pretty rare as well.

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