From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 09:26:40 -0400
From: Zachary DeAquila zachary@zachs.place.org
Subject: laptop and mice
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>I'm considering buying a laptop and would like, of course, to consider
>running plan 9 on it.  But all the machines have one button (apple) or
>two button (windoz) mice built in.  Are there any machines with three
>button mice?  (and supported by plan 9 ?)

Well, Tadpole Technology makes high-end laptops that have 3 buttons,
but they're *real* high end machines (100 & 133MHz Pentium laptops) and
you could buy a car for what their lowest end machine will cost you.
Http://www.tadpole.com/ for more info.  They also make Sparcbooks :)
Unfortunately, I don't think Plan9 has been put on either one of their machines
yet..

>  Probably not, so the real
>question is what are folks doing to provide the extra mouse button?  I
>know that one could buy an external mouse and carry that around as
>well, but that's not very elegant given that most everything else one might
>want is now built it to the basic machine.  Using the alt, or better, the new
>windows key, as either a third mouse button or a button modifier seems
>better, but...has anyone done this?  Other ideas?

How many machines have the 'new windows key' ? Alt sounds to me like a better idea,
or maybe even something more bizarre like Ctrl-Alt... perhaps it would be best to
just have a general 'remapper' app that would let the user reassign mouseclicks
to whatever key or keycombination was desired.  

 --Zachary