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- From: bevan@cs.man.ac.uk (Stephen J Bevan)
- Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
- Subject: Re: Terminal vs. workstations productivity
- Message-ID: <BEVAN.92Nov11150751@beluga.cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 15:07:51 GMT
- References: <sav.720285056@nanette> <1992Oct30.000254.15144@den.mmc.com>
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- Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester
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- In-reply-to: richard@crowded-house.den.mmc.com's message of 9 Nov 92 20:03:51 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov9.200351.17122@den.mmc.com> richard@crowded-house.den.mmc.com (Richard Armstrong) writes:
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- >Maybe, but I don't see anything in the above that _required_ a
- >X-Terminal, all you seem to need is the ability to have two "windows"
- >visible on the screen.
-
- I guess you missed the word "mouse".
-
- I certainly did and I apologise. Mice do not work for me (and believe
- me I've tried hard to use them) but that doesn't mean they don't work
- for others. My personal wish (and I'm mentioned this before) is for a
- trackball roughly where my right thumb lies when touch typing%, or
- failing that an a4 terminal.
-
- bevan
-
- % I know you can get Mac's with keyboards like this, but I don't
- develop on/for Mac's
-