home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Xref: sparky comp.os.os2.advocacy:3256 comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy:1569 comp.sys.acorn:8025
- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!strath-cs!st-and!gta
- From: gta@st-andrews.ac.uk (Graham Allan)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.sys.acorn,comp.sys.mac.mis
- Subject: Re: New MultiTOS PC (Atari Falcon)
- Message-ID: <20P9n-j010n@st-andrews.ac.uk>
- Date: 25 Jul 92 03:31:21 GMT
- References: <BrrG7G.JCx@comp.vuw.ac.nz> <BJDBoB28w165w@mantis.co.uk> <DBH.92Jul23142918@wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk>
- Sender: gta@st-andrews.ac.uk (Graham Allan)
- Reply-To: gta@st-andrews.ac.uk
- Organization: Greyfriars mail-relay
- Lines: 25
-
- dbh@doc.ic.ac.uk (Denis Howe) writes:
-
- > In article <BJDBoB28w165w@mantis.co.uk> mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk>
- > wrote:
- >
- > >Believe it or not, some of us don't want a 3 button mouse.
- >
- > It doesn't take an expert in HCI to appreciate which part of the human
- > body has the greatest amount of motor neuron processing power devoted
- > to it - the hands. Given that, Apple's (or was it Xerox's ?) and
- > Mathew's choice of a one-button mouse seems most restrictive.
-
- Apple purely to blame here, I think... Xerox used a 3-button mouse for their
- Smalltalk system.
-
- Graham
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Graham Allan
- Physics Dept, University of St.Andrews gta@st-andrews.ac.uk
-