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From: chas@gtss.gatech.edu (Charles Cleveland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Workbench 1.4 suggestion
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Date: 27 Mar 89 20:06:47 GMT
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Organization: Georgia Tech School of Physics
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In article <6731@ecsvax.UUCP> utoddl@ecsvax.UUCP (Todd M. Lewis) writes:
)In article <663@ivucsb.UUCP>, dan@ivucsb.UUCP (Dan Howell) writes:
)> On Xerox workstations, the function of a middle button is emulated on a two
)> button mouse by pressing both buttons simultaneously.  This is called
)> "chording" the mouse.  Perhaps Intution could support this.
)
)Hmmm.   Lets see.  1 button, 0 chords.  2 buttons, 1 chord.
)3 buttons, 3 chords.  I see trouble ahead.

(Yes.  And here it comes.)
Hey, eight buttons and we can enter the entire ASCII code set (including
the high order bit) directly with the mouse!  Mousers will be able to dispense
with that pesky keyboard at last.  Or better yet, since it would be hard to
enter NUL just with the mouse, how about just putting a inverted trackball on
the bottom of the keyboard.  That would give us something like a hundred-
button mouse, free up the mouse port up for something useful like a
second joystick, and open up desk space besides.  Let's see BM and Apple
compete with that.
-- 
"Our vision is to speed up time, eventually eliminating it." -- Alex Schure

Charles Cleveland   Georgia Tech School of Physics   Atlanta, GA 30332-0430
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