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Mon Mar 15 07:16:11 1982
Re: Pointing devices
>From reid@Shasta@Sumex-Aim Wed Mar 10 22:14:12 1982
The guy who invented the mouse (Doug Engelbart) did so as part of an
extensive scientific study of the suitability and efficiency of
pointing devices. It's true that manufacturers don't agree on what is
the best, but I think that is mostly a "not invented here" issue. There
is plenty of solid experimental data that mice work best. Doug did the
work 15 years ago, which is so long ago that it is no longer
fashionable.
Xerox's optical mouse that is described in the proceedings of the CMU
VLSI conference can probably be built for $5.00, thereby providing a
strong economic justification for something that already has a strong
technical justification.
Brian
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