*nix on "classic" systems

[John Foust]

At 12:18 PM 4/12/2007, der Mouse wrote:
>*Two seconds*?  Just to remember the keystroke??  *Definitely*
>unpracticed users!  Even when using Windows (which I occasionally do at
>work), I can windows-R-return and get a command window up faster than
>the time it's supposed to take me to merely remember how to do it.

No doubt there will be a standard distribution of experience
and elapsed times, as well as many other subtle differences.  
I don't think it takes years to learn and rely on chords and
function key shortcuts.  Months or weeks, maybe, if you used
them all day.  I'd also argue that there's an angle of physical-based
memory involved, too.  My fingers remember CTRL/X CTRL/C CTRL/V because
I'm cutting, copying and pasting while typing, but I also have
a gestural memory corresponding to the location of various 
pop-up contextual menus within other apps.

I would hope there have been more studies since Apple's.

- John