On Friday 29 June 2007, ash wrote:
> people use a mouse like m$ has taught them, rather than realising it is
> a magic wand limited only by their imagination
>
> i still can't believe the people at apple for all their elegant software
> then didn't strangle whoever it was in hardware that decided one button
> on a mouse is clever
>
> maybe he / she had meromelia and it was considered uncool to point out
> that standard issue is five digits because of their corporate political
> correctness
Funny hing is that the original mouse ("invented" by Parc Place Systems,
Xerox) had 3 buttons, and in the early times of X implementations (or
Smalltalk80 which is what I used some 25 years ago) we had to struggle with
2-button "PC" mice, emulating the third button by clicking both buttons
simultaneously
Took MS and Apple nearly two decades to rediscover the benefits of more than
one or two mouse buttons.
Processors might be evolving fast, but software and ergonomic input hardly has
changed AT ALL in the past 20 years (eg the power of a Smalltalk80 system
already then!)
Horst
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