From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 MIME-version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 9.3 \(3124\)) From: Brantley Coile In-reply-to: Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 08:12:48 -0400 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Message-id: References: <20160519215144.GG22691@wopr> <461FFF1E-B3DA-43E1-BC4C-1672E4C628A6@orthanc.ca> <1463707391.4126990.613229361.7308302E@webmail.messagingengine.com> <48ECC010-AAE2-4535-B5BF-42D46EC1CD90@orthanc.ca> <1463709745.4136967.613259513.7C5C1955@webmail.messagingengine.com> <5B039617-11E1-4D3E-AE61-E29C067220AD@orthanc.ca> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] problem with acme on 9front Topicbox-Message-UUID: 90e0f6f6-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 I purchased about a hundred of the IBM mice on Ebay, so I=E2=80=99m good = for a while.=20 HP has a nice three button mouse currently, seemingly from the European = part of the company. I=E2=80=99m using one now. http://www.laserjet.co.uk/hp-usb-optical-3-button-mouse-dy651a Acme, of course, is based on the Oberon System by Niklaus Wirth, = modified to be imported into the Plan 9 system, so it does have a = different feel from Sam. If you haven=E2=80=99t studied Oberon, I would = recommend you do. It was an amazing tour-de-force by Professor Wirth.=20 The use of Sam vs Acme was always pretty evenly distributed. Rob uses = Acme and Ken uses Sam still. At SouthSuite, one of the few places still based on Plan 9, use Acme = uniformly. Brantley Coile > On May 20, 2016, at 7:58 AM, hiro <23hiro@gmail.com> wrote: >=20 > I have bought 5 IBM mice with a real middle finger button. If someone > needs one tell me. > http://www.ibmfiles.com/ibmfiles/peripherals/scrollpoint_ice_blue.jpg > location: Berlin >=20