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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!garlic.com!news.scruz.net!kithrup.com!news.Stanford.EDU!microunity!usenet From: deborah@gallifrey.microunity.com (Deborah Gronke Bennett) Subject: Re: The invention of the pointing device In-Reply-To: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk's message of 4 Jun 1996 00:09:19 +0100 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: gallifrey.microunity.com Message-ID: <oqivd7jc1x.fsf@gallifrey.microunity.com> Sender: deborah@gallifrey.microunity.com Organization: MicroUnity Systems Engineering, Inc. X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.1 References: <4ovrb0$o3@anorak.coverform.lan> Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 01:04:58 GMT Lines: 27 In article <4ovrb0$o3@anorak.coverform.lan> brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) writes: This was answered with "Double clicking was invented by the MAC well before X was ever invented.". Does anyone know how long X has been around, and when the first pointing device was introduced ? Can anyone point me in the right direction ? The pointing device was invented by Douglas Engelbart at SRI in the 1960's. Check out this web page for a brief history: http://www.superkids.com/aweb/pages/features/mouse/mouse.html (caveat: written for kids), or do a web search on Engelbart and mouse. X10 or early X11 (like R3) was being ported to HP workstations in HP-Labs in 1986. I took a survey of Window Systems course once where it was said that X was invented at Stanford to run on an operating system called W, but I don't have any details or dates. -- ---------- Deborah Gronke Bennett (WD5HJH) kernel and device drivers engineer deborah@microunity.com (408)-734-8100 MicroUnity Systems Eng., 255 Caspian Drive, Sunnyvale, CA 94089-1015 USA Want cscope? See http://www.att.com/ssg/new/cscope.html