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Why 3 button mice in Oberon?

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From: Timothy Alan Anderson
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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Subject: Why 3 button mice in Oberon?
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