Mouse Speed in PRAM?

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From: gillies
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1989 16:55

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I think it's a design mistake to put the mouse speed in the macintosh PRAM.

Every time you have a serious crash (like MS-Word 4.0, 5 minutes ago),
you must go to the control panel and fix the mouse speed (and it
defaults to tablet!  sheesh!).  Every time a student boots from a
floppy disk in a macintosh lab, he probably needs to reset the mouse
speed.  Why is this parameter in PRAM?  This data should be stored in
the system file, the finder file, or some finder configuration file.

I can't see a good reason why it's stored in PRAM, except for
simplicity.  I hope Apple fixes this inconsistency in system 7.0.

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