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In article <126900070@p.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
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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

I crash bunches, but my pram almost never dies.

>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.

Maybe the idea is that the mouse is attached to the hardware, so the
settings should be attached to the hardware?  I move my hard disk from
computer to computer, and I like the fact that things like desktop
pattern stay stuck to the specific machine.  Seeing as how the mouse
(or track ball) usually stays stuck to the machine, I can understand
wanting its settings to stay there too.

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