From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <44ED175F.1060905@coraid.com> Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 23:05:03 -0400 From: Brantley Coile User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Macintosh/20050716) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: First attempts References: <9c44dc9b0608220926s262294f4jfd4ac64104ddff3a@mail.gmail.com> <3929.1156302338@piper.nectar.cs.cmu.edu> <7d3530220608231344g7bf1b254qc931a6e3d59d88ad@mail.gmail.com> <7d3530220608231412q728db6a2hd92e02d2fdaeaf53@mail.gmail.com> <3e1162e60608231522q398e5677s6d04380804339494@mail.gmail.com> <7d3530220608231719p51206acxdf7c8004919b23e4@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7d3530220608231719p51206acxdf7c8004919b23e4@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: a7432142-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/xerox/alto/AltoSchems/ John Floren wrote: > On 8/23/06, David Leimbach wrote: > >> On 8/23/06, John Floren wrote: >> > On 8/23/06, John Floren wrote: >> > > On 8/22/06, Dave Eckhardt wrote: >> > > > Personally I'd like to see a "Maze War" clone (that was perhaps >> > > > the original first-person-shooter game). I bet there's code >> > > > kicking around you could start from. You could do an IP version, >> > > > or maybe use a set of named pipes on a handy Plan 9 file server >> > > > to do your networking instead. >> > > > >> > > > Dave Eckhardt >> > > > >> > > >> > > I saw something a few months ago about Maze War; it was perfect with >> > > the mouse and chording keyboard thing. >> > > >> > That's what I get for not paying attention. I meant to add that this >> > was Maze War on the Alto, which of course was the machine that *had* >> > the chording keyboard. >> > >> > John >> >> I think I want a chording keyboard too... I wonder who could be >> convinced to make one since my EE-fu is possibly the worst ever. >> > > Well, first ask Xerox for the schematics and specs on theirs... I > wonder if they would give them to you, since they no longer produce > it. Perhaps if you assured them you only want to make one unit for > yourself, they would. Of course, then you have to convert from > whatever their unit outputs to PS/2, but it would be a nice thing to > have. > > If you get anywhere, find any schematics, etc., post them here or send > them to me. My EE-fu might be sufficient. > > (New subject) Weren't the chording keyboard and the mouse designed to > go together? If I could type with one hand while having the other on > the mouse, I could see how Plan 9 would be *perfect*. As it is, I > still get annoyed when I have to take my hands from the keyboard (yes, > I've read all the stuff about how it isn't /really/ faster, but I > can't really believe that it's faster to grab the mouse and click than > it is to alt-tab--at least in some cases). > > > John