Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!TAURUS.BITNET!shani From: shani@TAURUS.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: New mouse design... WHY?! Summary: Hex again Message-ID: <1022@taurus.BITNET> Date: 17 May 89 05:21:20 GMT References: <7891@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Organization: Tel-Aviv Univesity Math and CS school, Israel Lines: 11 In article <738@arisia.Xerox.COM>, fischer@arisia.Xerox.COM (Ronald A. Fischer) > Unlike the perpendicular stripes on the Mouse Systems > pad used by Sun, the hex pattern has no rotation as far as the > recognizer chip is concerned. Back to the old hex solution again :-) Bees have figured that out millions of years ago... Why didn't any of us think about it before?? O.S.