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Re: Ever wondered why your mouse pointer is angled, not straight?

From RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com>
Newsgroups comp.misc
Subject Re: Ever wondered why your mouse pointer is angled, not straight?
Date 2014-03-02 15:30 +0000
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On 2014-03-01, Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> 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.

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Ever wondered why your mouse pointer is angled, not straight? RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-27 15:30 +0000
  Re: Ever wondered why your mouse pointer is angled, not straight? Koen Lefever <koen.lefever@gmail.com> - 2014-02-27 08:15 -0800
    Re: Ever wondered why your mouse pointer is angled, not straight? RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-27 20:16 +0000
      Re: Ever wondered why your mouse pointer is angled, not straight? Koen Lefever <koen.lefever@gmail.com> - 2014-02-28 07:17 -0800
    Re: Ever wondered why your mouse pointer is angled, not straight? Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2014-02-27 14:18 -0600
      Re: Ever wondered why your mouse pointer is angled, not straight? RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-27 20:52 +0000
  Re: Ever wondered why your mouse pointer is angled, not straight? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-02-28 11:23 +0000
    Re: Ever wondered why your mouse pointer is angled, not straight? Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2014-02-28 11:11 -0500
      Re: Ever wondered why your mouse pointer is angled, not straight? Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-02-28 16:29 +0000
      Re: Ever wondered why your mouse pointer is angled, not straight? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-03-01 00:48 +0000
        Re: Ever wondered why your mouse pointer is angled, not straight? Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-03-01 15:18 +0100
          Re: Ever wondered why your mouse pointer is angled, not straight? RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-02 15:30 +0000
      Re: Ever wondered why your mouse pointer is angled, not straight? Shadow <Sh@dow.br> - 2014-03-02 12:54 -0300
    Re: Ever wondered why your mouse pointer is angled, not straight? Theo Markettos <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2014-03-04 13:35 +0000

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