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

>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.

Over the years I think Most mac users have had their mac crash, either
thru poor software, or who knows what. but I have never had mine crash
and change a PRAM setting...there must be something else wrong in this
case.


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