Hello Jonathan!
Tuesday March 31 1998 13:15, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote to Jonathan
Michaels:
 JM>> closer to getting the dreaded rsi. this is why i detest the
 JM>> the microsoft mouse system .. this has been proven to not
 JM>> just cause rsi but ti severly agrivate existing conditions.
 JM>> mice started out as three button beasties and their was no
 JM>> double clicking involved . microsoft need to differentiate
 JM>> thier ice from everybody else, so the droped a key and
 JM>> introduced the concept of double clicking, and the drs have
 JM>> been thier freinds ever since.
 JP > To be fair, this may be lambasting Microsoft unnecessarily.
maybe if you haven't beein involved in some of the 'questionable' sales
contracts that microsoft has written over the years .. this i sso far off 
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as to be dangerious and i won't continue this segment .. as hot and gossipy 
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it might be atractive in some quarters.
 JP > After all, the Apple Macintosh mouse had just one button.  On
 JP > the other hand, though, Microsoft did make several changes to
 JP > the WIMP interface that were purely for legal reasons, to help
 JP > it avoid the famous "look and feel" lawsuit from Apple, not for
yup, that is a given when you 'aquire'somebody elses work and 'customise' it
for your own purposes.
 JP > ergonomic or user friendliness ones.
this was my point also i have been using point and click (mo not THE smilth 
and
wesson ultimate user interface, grin) before billy had a chance to
missaproriate that code that finally became msdos.
over the years i have found the microsoft winp to be the most (ergonomically)
taxing to use, this goes not include the difficulties that i have becaise of
the coulour blindness and the inavility to alter the 'colouring' of the
microspft wimp to suit my needs .. even the workplace shell is getting that
way, and is getting harder to use for a colour blinded person, with my
particular sight impairments.
ps, just switching to a 'monochrome' palette doesn't provide the required
alterations to make the screen visible for me.
this is why i am so interested in how my new 'toy' will work with os/2 and 
os/2
xfree86 port of xwindows. now here is a wimp that is both user friendly and
ergonimally conservative and customisable to the point where a person with a
mouth stick can use the computer as efficeintly as and as quicklly as any
familiarised professional touch typist.
to reiterate, i don't like microsofts ethics or morality, this arrogance is
spreading into the hardware market place a=in the way it is forcaing
conformance to secondhand implementations of very questionable user 
interfaces.
but, as always this is my view, and on that is tainted by over 25 years of
bitter experience with the bully boy that is microsoft.
Jonathan
... i do what i can, with what i have, are you able to say the same ?
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