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From: sho@gibbs.physics.purdue.edu (Sho Kuwamoto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: De-macification of the Amiga (Re: The Amiga's Future)
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Date: 22 Jun 91 17:25:25 GMT
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In article <4661.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz> jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers) writes:
>    With a 3-button mouse the options would be more open, of course.
>    Does the Mac still get along with one? Perhaps we can use a code
>    of mouse clicks - 3 long clicks means make the icon full size and
>    make it stick to the mouse pointer in preparation for moving. :)

You've hit the nail on the head.  Under System 7 on the mac, the
keyboard is no longer used to input text.  You enter text by tapping
Morse code on the mouse button.  Since a single click might be
misinterpreted as an 'e', a new dot/dash sequence (previously unused
in Morse code) is used to represent 'real' mouse clicks.  For
backwards compatability, the keyboard also works, but I imagine most
users will throw their keyboards away soon.

Now the situation for the new OS code-named "pink" is a different
matter.  A roller will be placed underneath the keyboard itself to
make it a 135 button mouse.  Since this may not be enough to suit the
needs of future power users, chording of up to five keys is vigorously
supported by the OS.  This gives us 41,924,045,475 different possible
mouse commands.  

I use a one button mouse on my mac and a three button mouse on a Sun.
I really don't care which I use.  I don't think the one button mouse
is much easier to use, and I don't think the three button mouse is
much more powerful.  Maybe I just haven't tweaked my .twmrc enough to
get that added hyper-performance edge, but having to remember which
button to use is exactly as annoying to me as having to remember when
to use the shift key or when to double-click.  Besides, I'm always
having to resort to things like meta-left-button, ctrl-middle-button,
and so on, so it's not as if I were able to ignore the keyboard
completely when issuing mouse clicks.

-Sho
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sho@physics.purdue.edu <<-- click.  click, click.