From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Sep 1 20:52:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA11428 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 20:52:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (fallout.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA11422 for ; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 20:52:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jfieber@localhost) by fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA05156; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 22:51:01 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 1 Sep 1997 22:51:01 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber To: Greg Lehey cc: hcremean@vt.edu, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Microsoft the GUI King (was Re: ATT Unix for Windows) In-Reply-To: <19970902104153.54244@lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 2 Sep 1997, Greg Lehey wrote: > > FWIW, I have seen one-handed keyboards of the sort Engelbart proposed > > advertised in the backs of pooter magazines....they look > > interesting. > > How do they work? Usually by chording rather than typing single keys. I gather the main liability is the amount of time it takes to learn. 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. -john