Date: Wed, 3 Sep 1997 00:34:08 +0200 From: Peter Korsten <peter@grendel.IAEhv.nl> To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Microsoft the GUI King (was Re: ATT Unix for Windows) Message-ID: <19970903003408.50710@grendel.IAEhv.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970901224637.307T-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>; from John Fieber on Mon, Sep 01, 1997 at 10:51:01PM -0500 References: <19970902104153.54244@lemis.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.970901224637.307T-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>
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John Fieber shared with us: > > [keyboards designed to be used with a mouse] > > Also, to really use the mouse as it was originally envisioned > would require re-writing software interfaces to best take > advantage of a keyboard used at the same time as the mouse > instead of each in relative isolation. Such software would > probably be terribly cumbersome for the 99.9% of the world who > doesn't have such a keyboard/mouse arrangement. The mouse could also be improved. Someone at the university I hang around devised a mouse with little motors in it, so you can actually feel a little bump as you move over a window border. You can create things like 'holes' or even 'walls' that the mouse can't get passed. - Peter
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