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From: Ed@ALDERAAN.SCRC.SYMBOLICS.COM (Ed Schwalenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Help with double-click recognition.
Message-ID: <19891018182056.2.ED@PEREGRINE.SCRC.Symbolics.COM>
Date: 18 Oct 89 18:20:00 GMT
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    Date: Wed, 18 Oct 89 12:42:18 CDT
    From: ekberg@osage.csc.ti.com

       From: ficc!peter@uunet.uu.net  (Peter da Silva)

	      Double-click is a kludge foisted on the computing world by the
	  decision to put only one button on the Macintosh mouse.

    Hardly!  I still haven't used a Mac but I have been a double-click fan for >6
    years!!  Try looking at a lisp machine.

I was just asking around about this, and double-clicking has been in the
Lisp Machine system since the beginning (1977 or so), and it wasn't an
original idea THEN.  The "computing world" has known about mice and
double-clicking for longer than Apple has been in business.