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Re:A Plea for Lean Software (1995) [pdf] by Koshkin on Monday June 28, 2021 @03:13PM (#27666386)
Mouse chording, ouch. (I firmly believe it is the worst idea in the history of personal computing.)
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Re:A Plea for Lean Software (1995) [pdf] by philipswood on Monday June 28, 2021 @03:44PM (#27666867)
Wasn't too bad to use.

Biggest gripe was finding a PC with a 3-buttoned mouse in the uni computer lab when it was full.

Being able to select, copy, paste and execute without touching a keyboard was cool.

(We used it a bit in a 3rd year computer science OS course)

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Re:A Plea for Lean Software (1995) [pdf] by pjmlp on Monday June 28, 2021 @03:36PM (#27666751)
People that worship the ACME editor might be of different point of view.
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