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From: al@aurora.UUCP (Al Globus)
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Subject: Re: Re: Re: Atari ST vs. Apple Mac
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> 
> Actually, yes. The one button mouse on the Mac is, in my opinion, its
> strongest weakness. I've hacked to some degreee with mice with from one
> button to four (and also a trackball, which has some advantages of its own)
> and I find the two button mouse to be the best tradeoff between
> functionality and confusion. You can easily get to either button, and you
> don't need to watch the mouse like you do with four buttons, and you don't
> need to use a 'Meta' key like you do with a one button mouse.
> Realistically, the Mac IS a two button mouse -- look at how much you use
> the <shift> key while clicking and dragging and imagine how much nicer it
> would be if you had that shift key on the mouse where it was convenient...
> 

With one hand on the mouse, I have another hand free to operate a whole
keyboard full of buttons.  With the shift, option, and command keys I
can get about 16 (?) functionalities out of the one mouse button and then
there's all those characters.  Since using two hands at once comes quite
easily, I feel that one mouse button is perfect.