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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Optical Mice.
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Date: 2 May 90 22:44:25 GMT
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In article <8299@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu> velasco@beowulf.UUCP (Gabriel Velasco) writes:
>(Marc Barrett) writes:
>>   I kind of wish Commodore, with the Amiga 3000, would set a standard
>>in the PC market by using an optical mouse with it. 
>
>Then a bunch of people disagree with him.
>
>decide.  In general a computer should easily support as many different types
> of input devices as it can.

The Amiga (any model) supports both types (machanical and optical) TODAY!!
You can get the same mouse that Sun ships with their workstations (made
by mouse systems, I believe), with a proper Amiga interface, from GfxBase,
the makers of X11 for the Amiga.  I recall that Harv Laser really likes 
that mouse, and Creative Computers might still sell it for $99. 

-- Marco
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