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From: dav@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (William David Haas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: replacing the desktop metaphor
Keywords: desktop metaphor, graphical interfaces, computing environments
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Date: 2 Jan 89 21:48:04 GMT
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In article <242@serene.UUCP> rfarris@serene.uu.net (Rick Farris) writes:
>In article <3504@geaclib.UUCP> rae@geaclib.UUCP (Reid Ellis) writes:
>
<   Now with a keyboard, you don't want to restrict yourself to a few
<   degrees of freedom [no pun intended there:-)] because the infrared
<   beam has to be pointed *there*.
<
<
<I think that until we build crts into our eyeglasses, that we'll
<generally be pointed *there* anyway.
<
<
I like to sit with my feet on my desk and my keyboard in my lap.  The
side of the keyboard is facing the crt and which side depends on which
direction I face.