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From: benoni@ssc-vax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Downside and Upside
Message-ID: <1296@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 13-Jun-87 00:54:49 EDT
Article-I.D.: ssc-vax.1296
Posted: Sat Jun 13 00:54:49 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 14-Jun-87 01:42:53 EDT
References: <8706111647.AA02770@hi-csc.uucp>
Organization: Boeing Aerospace Corp., Seattle WA
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In article <8706111647.AA02770@hi-csc.uucp>, slocum@hi-csc.UUCP (Brett Slocum) writes:
> First, I have never had trouble hitting the 'next window' key to get
> to the input window.  I don't mind making one keystroke every now and
> then.  I never hear complaints about this either.  Second, I am not
> aware of any workstation that uses two cursors.  How would you control
> them?  One cursor for the mouse, and one for the arrow keys?  And
> which one do you use for text input??  Two cursors seems absurd to me.
> 
Maybe not two cursors. But a cursor and and pointer per the Sun machines
seem much nicer.  The idea that you can have the pointer *anywhere* in the
window and be able to type is not only intelligent design
but functionally superior to Apollo's single command line nonsense where
you have to have the cursor/pointer on the bottom line of the window or
else face no text entry and beeping.

> have many users here who know nothing about Aegis who get along fine
> without it.
Unfortunately we have very few users that get along with Aegis.