Bob Breed wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 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 made
 RJT> so much sense,
 RJT>  and were so widely copied -- they don't require you to take your hands
 RJT> off the keyboard,  as contrasted with programs that heavily use the
 RJT> function keys...

 BB> Thus WS added to the problem. :) 

Added to it?!  Seems to me that they thought about how people might
actually *use* something,  instead of stuffing all sorts of arbitrary BS in
there.

 BB> I see article after article saying rest  a bit every hour or so - 
 BB> don't just type away hour after hour.

It doesn't seem to be a problem for me.

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