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Article #576Why 3 button mice in Oberon?
From: Timothy Alan Anderson
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 22:38
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 22:38
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I have just started perusing the various papers at gatekeeper.dec.com about Oberon, and have purchased the book "The Oberon System" by Martin Reiser. I fail to see why such a well thought out system uses something so specific as a three button mouse. The girations required to 'interclick' are so rediculous that I can't imagine anyone favoring this approach. I am up to page 25 in "The Oberon System" and there are allready two 'CAUTION' flags regarding erronous 'interclicking'. Are there real benifits to this approach? Six different button combinations allready has me sticking post-it notes on my monitor so that I can remember what does what. I favor a 'one button' mouse approach, with single clicks, double clicks and drags as the only viable choices. (No, I do not own a Macintosh). Has anyone mapped an Oberon system out that uses this as a requirement? Lastly, the oberon system on gatekeeper.dec.com doesn't seem to work at all on my computer (486/33, windows, two button mouse). This is too bad... tima@sequent.com PS: Is there any way to make sure a standards comittee never get's it's hands on Oberon? ;-)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!sgiblab!cs.uoregon.edu!ogicse!sequent!muncher.sequent.com!tima From: tima@sequent.com (Timothy Alan Anderson) Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2 Subject: Why 3 button mice in Oberon? Message-ID: <1992Sep15.223854.11203@sequent.com> Date: 15 Sep 92 22:38:54 GMT Article-I.D.: sequent.1992Sep15.223854.11203 Sender: usenet@sequent.com (usenet ) Organization: Sequent Computer Systems Inc. Lines: 22 Nntp-Posting-Host: family.sequent.com