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From: mouse@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU
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Subject: Re:  Seven-fingered hands
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Date: 19 Dec 90 07:39:23 GMT
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>>	In fact, sometimes I even wish for a 5-button mouse

> Can't wait to grow those two extra fingers to hold the mouse itself!

Goodness, you don't need that.  I can use a three-button mouse quite
effectively with only two fingers used for pressing buttons.  Even just
one finger if I have to (if the other two "obvious" fingers have pizza
on them, for example :-).

> But seriously folks, is there actually a five-button mouse on sale or
> being developed?  I supposed I could strap the mouse on my palm, but
> it'll be impossible to touch type.

:-)  Take a current mouse - the three-button Sun mouse on my desk as I
type this, for example.  Now shrink the buttons until the spaces
between them are as wide as the buttons are (this doesn't need much
shrinking for the mouse on my desk).  Now put buttons in those spaces.

To put it another way, you don't need 26 fingers to type the whole
alphabet on a normal letter keyboard :-)

I'd buy one, given assurance that the software I have can deal with it
(either directly or with simple patches).

					der Mouse

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