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From: kaufman@polya.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc,comp.sys.next,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: replacing the desktop metaphor
Keywords: desktop metaphor, graphical interfaces, computing environments
Message-ID: <5965@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 9 Jan 89 00:54:15 GMT
References: <4362@pitt.UUCP> <257@gloom.UUCP> <82702@sun.uucp> <8939@ut-emx.UUCP> <3504@geaclib.UUCP> <18640@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <2643@xyzzy.UUCP> <17988@glacier.STANFORD.EDU>
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In article <17988@glacier.STANFORD.EDU> jbn@glacier.UUCP (John B. Nagle) writes:

>      It appears, suprisingly, that type approval is NOT required in
>this band.  So it is a candidate for within-room wireless data transmission.
 ...
>      This could all be made to work, but packing it into a keyboard
>might require some semicustom ICs.

And I thought wireless baby monitors were bad...   This would be a wonderful
security hole in a system. (let's see... a brief burst of keyboard data from
a hopped-up 100 watt CB -> 'rm -rf *.*')

Marc Kaufman (kaufman@polya.stanford.edu)