Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!crdgw1!barnett From: barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: The Mouse -- What is its History? Message-ID: Date: 15 Oct 90 21:41:10 GMT References: <21056@dime.cs.umass.edu> <1123@helens.Stanford.EDU> <9028@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> <1990Oct11.174840.21598@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: barnett@crdgw1.ge.com Organization: GE Corp. R & D, Schenectady, NY Lines: 15 In-reply-to: nayeri@cs.umass.edu's message of 15 Oct 90 03:27:08 GMT In article nayeri@cs.umass.edu (Farshad Nayeri) writes: | Once again, this kind of thing happens a lot under X-Windows. | Go one-button mouse. For an example of much more consistent use of 3 button | mouse than Xwindows, look at (ParcPlace) Smalltalk. I think Xerox PARC had it | all before all of the other people. It really bugs me when people knock X windows for the wrong reason. X Windows was designed to be policy free. it doesn't HAVE a user interface. -- Bruce G. Barnett barnett@crd.ge.com uunet!crdgw1!barnett