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From: amull@Morgan.COM (Andrew P. Mullhaupt)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.cog-eng
Subject: Re: Multi-button mice (Re: Xerox sues Apple!)
Summary: Me too...
Message-ID: <623@s5.Morgan.COM>
Date: 23 Dec 89 19:21:01 GMT
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In article <63649@looking.on.ca>, brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:
> I'm a touch typist, and not so big on mice, one button mice even less.
> 
> But a mouse is a pain because it takes my hands off the home row,
> where they are so powerful.  A one button mouse is worse because you have
> to go to the keyboard for any input that isn't just selecting and pointing.
> Even a trackball isn't good enough.  Moving hands on and off the keyboard
> (as in text editing) slows things down a lot.
>
Me too. I had a Sun 4 on my desk for six months and if it wasn't for 
that deeply stupid performance hit for NOT using suntools, I would
never have used 'em. As it was, I just made it pop up one big window
with real big type, and I left my mouse in my mail basket under 
who knows what for the duration.  The worst thing about that stupid
setup was the optical mouse which needed that little shiny surface
and would complain if you had it rotated. Utter junk. I'm much 
happier with SCO UNIX and its multiscreens. I'd like to have more
than one window on the screen once in a while, but it isn't often
enough for me to bother to find out how to do it. We're going to
shift to all X-based stuff in the near future. Oh well. I'll
probably be able to circumvet that stupid rat, but I really can't see
why I'll have to take any time to bother. The real irony is that
the guy we have writing the graphics and X parts of our applications
is even more home-position dependent than I am. He needs to always use
EMACS primarily because he doesn't even have to use cursor keys,
(which I like, if they're in a little triangle just to the right
of the main keys). 

Later,
Andrew Mullhaupt