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Date: Wed, 11-Jan-84 02:40:00 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 11 02:40:00 1984
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From:  Robert Elton Maas <REM @ MIT-MC>

Perhaps we should look as the HP touch-screen not as a competor for
the mouse in the same ecological niche but rather as a solution to a
totally different problem? Sure the touch-screen isn't as good for
large menus and text-editing etc. But it may be nicer for a
carry-around game-playing program such as Chess or Go or any number of
other board games where you want to point at a location on the board
easily. Neither alphanumeric notation nor a mouse is appropriate for a
game that is being carried around while playing it.