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From: Gary Capell gary@staff.cs.su.oz.au
Subject: A question...
Date: Mon,  5 Jun 1995 08:47:18 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19950605124718.Dm4N1vE7Yc93xz28DElMY-0ZCGvONAf6L7ck1zPhsTQ@z> (raw)


Thought the list might be interested in this question as well.

> G'day!
> 
> ...or as we say in Sweden "God dag!" I stumbled over your short 
> (to-the-point) article on Plan 9, specifically on its "Differences from 
> Unix". Being, I admit, a DOS/Windows person and judging from the little bit 
> I've learnt so far, Plan 9 seems very promising and its philosophy appeals 
> to me greatly. However, your article states that a three-button mouse is 
> assumed. Is this true for developers only or does it disqulify Plan 9 from 
> touch-screen GUI applications on hand-held on-line terminals?

The current GUI tools all assume a three-button mouse, but the
libraries don't.  There's nothing to stop people writing other GUIs for
terminals that are rodentially challenged.

> 
> Thanks a parking lot
> 
> Otto Medin (om@gambro.se)






             reply	other threads:[~1995-06-05 12:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1995-06-05 12:47 Gary [this message]
1995-10-07 11:02 a question Alexandr
1995-10-07 14:36 Steve

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