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Date:      Wed, 4 Aug 1999 18:33:49 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        regnauld@ftf.net (Phil Regnauld)
Cc:        markov@globalnet.co.uk, tlambert@primenet.com, sfuqua@nas.nasa.gov, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, sfuqua@nothing.nas.nasa.gov
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD cures RSI
Message-ID:  <199908041833.LAA20871@usr07.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990803122316.07266@ns.int.ftf.net> from "Phil Regnauld" at Aug 3, 99 12:23:16 pm

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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
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