From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Sep 2 16:34:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA04496 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 2 Sep 1997 16:34:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from news.IAEhv.nl (root@news.IAEhv.nl [194.151.64.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id QAA04489 for ; Tue, 2 Sep 1997 16:34:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from LOCAL (uucp@localhost) by news.IAEhv.nl (8.6.13/1.63) with IAEhv.nl; pid 29753 on Tue, 2 Sep 1997 23:34:05 GMT; id XAA29753 efrom: peter@grendel.IAEhv.nl; eto: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Received: (from peter@localhost) by grendel.IAEhv.nl (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA00625; Wed, 3 Sep 1997 00:34:09 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <19970903003408.50710@grendel.IAEhv.nl> Date: Wed, 3 Sep 1997 00:34:08 +0200 From: Peter Korsten To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Microsoft the GUI King (was Re: ATT Unix for Windows) References: <19970902104153.54244@lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.67e In-Reply-To: ; from John Fieber on Mon, Sep 01, 1997 at 10:51:01PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk John Fieber shared with us: > > [keyboards designed to be used with a mouse] > > Also, to really use the mouse as it was originally envisioned > would require re-writing software interfaces to best take > advantage of a keyboard used at the same time as the mouse > instead of each in relative isolation. Such software would > probably be terribly cumbersome for the 99.9% of the world who > doesn't have such a keyboard/mouse arrangement. The mouse could also be improved. Someone at the university I hang around devised a mouse with little motors in it, so you can actually feel a little bump as you move over a window border. You can create things like 'holes' or even 'walls' that the mouse can't get passed. - Peter