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From: pasek@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM (Michael A. Pasek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Hey Apple Mac engineers, answer->MacWorld Interview Answers you.
Summary: It used to be much better
Keywords: multitasking, improvements, mouse
Message-ID: <1431@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM>
Date: 9 Aug 89 15:47:20 GMT
Expires: 14 Aug 89 04:00:00 GMT
References: <14845@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <27159@srcsip.UUCP> <21857@dcatla.UUCP>
Reply-To: pasek@c10sd3.StPaul.NCR.COM (M. A. Pasek)
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Organization: NCR Comten, Inc.
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In article <21857@dcatla.UUCP> mclek@sunb.UUCP (Larry E. Kollar) writes:
>I don't know about PM, but I use Macs and Amigas both quite a bit.  I can
>tell the difference (I'm a tech writer, not a programmer):
>[stuff deleted]
>	- While printing a background job, I often have a hard time keeping
>	  control of the mouse pointer -- it's like using the mouse as a
>	  slingshot.  Very annoying.
>[remainder deleted]

I agree, this is VERY annoying....interestingly enough, for those of you that
remember, this did NOT happen with the early Macs and System software.  I don't
know whether it's because of the ADB, new ROMs, or the new System software, but
I wish they'd change it back so that if the cursor position on the screen was
not going to get updated IMMEDIATELY, the mouse 'movement' would just be 
'discarded' (i.e., the cursor would move very slowly or not at all, rather than
staying in one place and then all of a sudden jumping halfway across the
screen).  Just my opinion.

M. A. Pasek          Switching Software Development         NCR Comten, Inc.
(612) 638-7668              CNG Development               2700 N. Snelling Ave.
pasek@c10sd3.StPaul.NCR.COM                               Roseville, MN  55113