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From: baum@Apple.COM (Allen J. Baum)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.cog-eng
Subject: Re: Multi-button mice (Re: Xerox sues Apple!)
Message-ID: <37371@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 18 Dec 89 22:38:55 GMT
References: <172@comcon.UUCP> <7326@ficc.uu.net> <9320@hoptoad.uucp> <1989Dec18.081450.28019@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu> <2253@dataio.Data-IO.COM>
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>In article <2253@dataio.Data-IO.COM> aez@dataio.Data-IO.COM () writes:
>The Symbolics had a three-button mouse and software scannable control 
>keys on the keyboard (control, meta, hyper, super, [shift counted as
>a double click]). The mouse, keyboard usage was suggested by
>Buckminster Fuller and Richard Zipple (project leader) called them 
>"Bucky Keys".

The terminology of "bucky-bits" precedes Symbolics by quite a bit. It
originated at Stanford AI Labs in the late 60's, I believe. I can't
recall how they got named exactly. Perhaps someone who remembers could
set it straight, and possibly cross-post to alt.computer.folklore

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