Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!us.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: RS Wood Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Ever wondered why your mouse pointer is angled, not straight? Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2014 15:30:40 +0000 (UTC) Organization: solani.org Lines: 11 Message-ID: References: <4kc1h9tj9eavjl4p3gnqakparbln03nd2b@4ax.com> Reply-To: randy@therandymon.com X-Trace: solani.org 1393774240 14783 eJwNycERAEEEBMCUMMwSzh4l/xBun10doLKPM+ixsV3IbMuHBGmvSkPnBrU+nBFeaZlVh/ngBwCGEBQ= (2 Mar 2014 15:30:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@news.solani.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2014 15:30:40 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) X-User-ID: eJwNycEBwCAIA8CVREig4xRs9h/B3vfgNE4GwYAgPkGbivT+R901r8zRu1LrMFwnfX29m2GYCxACEM8= Cancel-Lock: sha1:mXkSw1jtY8nFF+dmwKc25ekF7aY= X-NNTP-Posting-Host: eJwNxIENwDAIA8GVQgyuMk6IYf8Riv70ARrf5wx69KSXfTC3dcTFuuUYsn3Vu6ITVb0NUsJ/OpESQA== Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:1150 On 2014-03-01, Paul Sture wrote: > My real pet hate in that era was the program which redisplayed the > complete line after every single character, presumably to get the > proportional spacing correct. I found it intensely distracting, even > when seen being used by a colleague across the office. I'm curious what that software must have been, because it sounds dreadfully unusable. Something like an early version of MS Word or Wordperfect? That's the sort of thing that would make me go back to pen and ink.