Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 20:07:52 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <markov@globalnet.co.uk> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: Phil Regnauld <regnauld@ftf.net>, sfuqua@nas.nasa.gov, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, sfuqua@nothing.nas.nasa.gov Subject: Re: FreeBSD cures RSI Message-ID: <19990804200752.D272@marder-1> In-Reply-To: <199908041833.LAA20871@usr07.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 06:33:49PM %2B0000 References: <19990803122316.07266@ns.int.ftf.net> <199908041833.LAA20871@usr07.primenet.com>
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On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 06:33:49PM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote:
> Phil Regnauld writes:
> > Mark Ovens writes:
> > > >
> > > > FWIW, we used to call this "Sun Mouse Syndrome" back before we had
> > > > thousands of people giving it mass-media names like "RSI".
> > > >
> > >
> > > Why specifically Sun?
> >
> > Because Sun shipped optical mice with their workstations very early
> > on, way before the others did ?
>
> On the money, as usual.
>
> They were the first company that actively encouraged you to move
> one of your hands (let's not leave out "lefties")
and "righties" who use the mouse with their left hand, like me ;-)
> away from "home
> row" by making the thing useful. It wasn't very useful in Windows
> until Windows 95 was released.
>
> Hmmm. I wonder how the existance of mice has impacted the ability
> of the post-mouse generation to learn touch-typing. Negatively,
> would be my guess...
>
>
> Terry Lambert
> terry@lambert.org
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