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Date:      Thu, 18 Jul 1996 16:40:05 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Bob Willcox <bob@luke.pmr.com>
To:        roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert)
Cc:        hsu@freefall.freebsd.org, chat@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 3-button mice on laptops (was Re: FreeBSD keyboard)
Message-ID:  <199607182140.QAA04529@luke.pmr.com>
In-Reply-To: <199607182035.WAA17643@keltia.freenix.fr> from Ollivier Robert at "Jul 18, 96 10:35:28 pm"

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Ollivier Robert wrote:
> According to Jeffrey Hsu:
> > mouse, but they're uniformly 2-button, except for RDI's sparc laptop.
> > Are there any pc notebooks which have an option for 3-button built-in
> > mice?
> 
> Yes, Tadpole's  P1000 which is  a  P100. DON'T BUY  IT !  It has  the  most
> horrible PCI  implementation i've  ever seen  (ask  Stephan Esser) and  the
> worst for  a laptop: it  has NO save  and resume. You have  to shut it down
> each time. 
> 
> I've never seen such an unusable machine.

My Dell Latitude XPi-P120ST has only two buttons, but they are both
large and completely surround the track ball, making pressing both
of them to emulate the center button reasonably easy.

-- 
Bob Willcox
bob@luke.pmr.com
Austin, TX



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