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Article #15405Re: Mac II mouse-
From: jww
Date: Thu, 02 Apr 1987 16:03
Date: Thu, 02 Apr 1987 16:03
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A third party 3-button mouse has been developed for the Apple DeskTop
Bus, but won't be announced until A/UX is available, since there's
no point. Apple has flatly rejected > 1 button for their interfaces,
but I assume one of the three buttons will still work with the Toolbox
(maybe the other two can be mapped to shift-click and option-click.)
The X Window System (which runs under UNIX) requires at a minimum
of two buttons, although three is better. There is no way to fake
it with one button, since it also uses keyboard modifiers.
The mouse has caught on, but let's look at how:
1 button Apple II, Macintosh
2 button IBM PC family
3 button UNIX workstations
Let's here it for industry standardization. At least everyone understands
what RS-232 is. :-)
--
Joel West
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jww@sdcsvax.ucsd.edu if you must
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