[Leaplist] Re: Rotating Wheel Mouse

[Bryan J Smith]

Bill Smith wrote:  
> Thank you, Hale.  Didn't know that the wheel could
> also act as a paste button.

The original 1965 mouse had 3 buttons.
The original Xerox windowing mouse had 3 buttons.
The original "w," pre-cursor to the 1984 X had 3 buttons.

I'm fairly certain X always used the middle mouse
button
for paste, and it always did since I used my first X-term in
the late '80s.

Sun and Logitch mice were a staple PC purchase for those
of us in the late '80s on-ward because they offered 3 mice on
many models, for those of us running a PC UNIX (even non-X).

It was only when the "wheel" came about that 3 buttons
became a "standard" for Windows PCs.

Personally, I prefer the "Stupidia" mouse for everyone else.
No buttons = only one support call ... ever. ;) 

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