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  2. QWERTY - Wikipedia

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    QWERTY. QWERTY (/ ˈkwɜːrti / KWUR-tee) is a keyboard layout for Latin-script alphabets. The name comes from the order of the first six keys on the top letter row of the keyboard: Q W E R T Y. The QWERTY design is based on a layout included in the Sholes and Glidden typewriter sold via E. Remington and Sons from 1874.

  3. Dvorak keyboard layout - Wikipedia

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    Dvorak keyboard layout. The modern Dvorak layout (U.S. layout) Dvorak / ˈdvɔːræk / ⓘ [1] is a keyboard layout for English patented in 1936 by August Dvorak and his brother-in-law, William Dealey, as a faster and more ergonomic alternative to the QWERTY layout (the de facto standard keyboard layout). Dvorak proponents claim that it ...

  4. Keyboard layout - Wikipedia

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    A keyboard layout is any specific physical, visual, or functional arrangement of the keys, legends, or key-meaning associations (respectively) of a computer keyboard, mobile phone, or other computer-controlled typographic keyboard. Physical layout is the actual positioning of keys on a keyboard. Visual layout is the arrangement of the legends ...

  5. Computer keyboard - Wikipedia

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    Typing on a laptop keyboard. A computer keyboard is a peripheral input device modeled after the typewriter keyboard [1][2] which uses an arrangement of buttons or keys to act as mechanical levers or electronic switches. Replacing early punched cards and paper tape technology, interaction via teleprinter -style keyboards have been the main input ...

  6. Alphabetical order - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, lexicographical order is a means of ordering sequences in a manner analogous to that used to produce alphabetical order. [16] Some computer applications use a version of alphabetical order that can be achieved using a very simple algorithm, based purely on the ASCII or Unicode codes for characters. This may have non-standard ...

  7. Sholes and Glidden typewriter - Wikipedia

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    The QWERTY keyboard, so named for the first six characters of the uppermost alphabetic row, was invented during the course of the typewriter's development. The first model constructed by Sholes used a piano-like keyboard with two rows of characters arranged alphabetically as follows: [13]

  8. Ergonomic keyboard - Wikipedia

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    Vertical column layout. An ortholinear keyboard, with keys arranged in an orthogonal grid with vertical columns. The Truly Ergonomic keyboard, which combines fixed-split design with vertical columns and staggered rows. ErgoDox, adjustable-split with vertical columns and staggered rows. Because electric typewriters and computer keyboards no ...

  9. sort (Unix) - Wikipedia

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    sort (Unix) In computing, sort is a standard command line program of Unix and Unix-like operating systems, that prints the lines of its input or concatenation of all files listed in its argument list in sorted order. Sorting is done based on one or more sort keys extracted from each line of input. By default, the entire input is taken as sort key.