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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: Has X Won the Window Wars? (was Re:
Message-ID: <3456@phri.UUCP>
Date: 2 Sep 88 23:16:15 GMT
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Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY)
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brian@hcx1.SSD.HARRIS.COM writes:
> There hasn't been a flood of new devices over the past ten years, with
> the exception of "specialty" devices (eg tablets for CAD'ers).  Basically,
> you've got the keyboard, and you've got the mouse.  Until we grow more
> hands or evolve differently, we probably won't see many new input devices.

	This is probably circular reasoning.  You claim we don't have to
support multiple input devices because they don't exist.  I claim they don't
exist because they are hard to support.  In addition to mice and tablets
(essentially the same thing), people like Silicon Graphics already support
dial-and-button boxes as standard I/O (well, mostly I) devices.  Touch
screens are becomming popular; I use one every time I use a cash machine.
And, if you want esoterica, try things like Richard Feldman's joystring, a
sort of 6-degree-of-freedom-with-tactile-feedback 3-d joystick (designed for
use in pairs, one per hand).
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Roy Smith, System Administrator
Public Health Research Institute
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