With modern PC systems, what less-than-optimal designs have we inherited?
- by Rob Kam
What have been less than optimal design choices, that are now (almost) immutable features of the modern PC system, and what constraints led to these choices?
There have been a great many of these. For example the qwerty keyboard is widespread although the Dvorak keyboard might be a better choice. I guess this is something to do with the teletypes that were used as early computer keyboards, which had originally been modified from typewriters.