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- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
- Subject: Re: Computer Superstition
- Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!unixland!rmkhome!rmk
- From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 21:17:05 GMT
- Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Message-ID: <9211201617.08@rmkhome.UUCP>
- References: <1992Nov19.174914.28632@osf.org> <BxzAs5.397@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
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- In article <BxzAs5.397@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> ags@seaman.cc.purdue.edu (Dave Seaman) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov19.174914.28632@osf.org> dbrooks@osf.org (David Brooks)
- >writes:
- >> I may be the only one to do this, but I sometimes bang on the Return key
- >a
- >> few times when I want something to hurry up (that is if the Return will
- >be
- >> harmless when eventually read). This goes back to the days of using an
- >OS
- >> (Primos?) that gives you scheduling preference when it sees a CR.
- >
- >I have observed that it seems to help to jiggle the mouse on a NeXT
- >(particularly when using NewsGrazer). More than once I have seen the
- >system sit quietly and unsresponsively for an extended period while the
- >mouse is motionless, but as soon as I move it a little (without even
- >clicking), things start happening. Theoretically, this shouldn't happen on
- >a NeXT.
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- It's configured to give the highest priority to the console user interface.
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- Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.UUCP unixland!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP
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