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Exotic Interface Query

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From: H_Eidnes%vax.runit.unit.uninett
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1987 08:38
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Since noone has brought up this particular example, I thought I
would mention it:

Quite a while ago we had an operating system called Accent (or Spice)
running on some of our (now sold) Perq-1s. What I'd like to mention
about this system, was that its window manager both had a keyboard
interface in addition to the mouse interface. With the keyboard it was
possible to (de)iconify, select windows for keyboard input, move
windows from top/bottom etc. Resizing and moving of the windows was
not supported, but I'd guess the main reason was that the Perq had no
cursor keys.

If someone would care for a more detailed description, I would be
happy to dig it out from the documentation (we still keep it around).
I remember that the keyboard bindings for the window-manager functions
were "natural" and easy to remember, and I preferred the keyboard
interface to the mouse interface (the bindings to mouse keys are
harder to remember than ordinary keyboard keys).

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