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  1. Organization: Senior, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!fs7.ece.cmu.edu!crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!mg40+
  3. Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
  4. Message-ID: <oehda7S00WB6Jixmo_@andrew.cmu.edu>
  5. Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 22:18:47 -0400 
  6. From: Michael Jeffrey Garland <mg40+@andrew.cmu.edu>
  7. Subject: Re: 3 button/accelerated mouse drivers
  8. In-Reply-To: <1992Sep14.234649.22239@midway.uchicago.edu>
  9. References: <1992Sep13.053014.16816@muddcs.claremont.edu>
  10.     <1992Sep14.234649.22239@midway.uchicago.edu>
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  13. sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:
  14. > I don't know how the mouse situation will evolve, but here's the
  15. > problem.  On the PC some systems have two mouse buttons, some have
  16. > three.  IBM was in a no win situation here.  If they designed their
  17. > driver to support all three buttons, software developers would start
  18. > writing with that third button in mind and people with just two mouse
  19. > buttons would find that they couldn't do certain things.
  20.  
  21. That isn't necessarily true.  They could easily have adopted the X
  22. approach of pressing both buttons together to take the place of a
  23. middle button.  Personally, I think that there ought to be support for
  24. 3 button mice; I've always wanted to put that middle button to good
  25. use.
  26.  
  27.  
  28.         -Michael Garland
  29.         -mg40@andrew.cmu.edu
  30.