From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Aug 4 11:34: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp05.primenet.com (smtp05.primenet.com [206.165.6.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9860B15410 for ; Wed, 4 Aug 1999 11:34:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr07.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp05.primenet.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id LAA15620; Wed, 4 Aug 1999 11:34:02 -0700 Received: from usr07.primenet.com(206.165.6.207) via SMTP by smtp05.primenet.com, id smtpd9kyQya; Wed Aug 4 11:33:55 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr07.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA20871; Wed, 4 Aug 1999 11:33:49 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199908041833.LAA20871@usr07.primenet.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD cures RSI To: regnauld@ftf.net (Phil Regnauld) Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 18:33:49 +0000 (GMT) Cc: markov@globalnet.co.uk, tlambert@primenet.com, sfuqua@nas.nasa.gov, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, sfuqua@nothing.nas.nasa.gov In-Reply-To: <19990803122316.07266@ns.int.ftf.net> from "Phil Regnauld" at Aug 3, 99 12:23:16 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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") 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 --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message